Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954.She was the only daughter of seven kids and was bossed around by her brothers. Her family consistantly moved between Chicago and Mexico City resulting in her not having any friends and feeling out of place. She read fairy tales and fantasy books to escape the lonelieness she experienced.
They bought their first house in the north side of Chicago. It was a small, red bungalow and it didn’t have much privacy . She wrote poetry as a escape of the realities of her life. She didn’t share her poetry until one of her tenth grade teachers asked her to read it to the class. She was encouraged to be part of the school’s literary magazine and she became the editer. The small bungalow was an inspiration to her book The
House on Mango Street.
She went to Chicago’s Loyola University and her …show more content…
She felt she couldn’t compete with her peers, many had an advantaged background.
She used her experiences and other people’s to write The House on Mango Street. Over two million copies have been sold since it was first published.
After getting a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for poetry, in 1986 she moved to Texas. In Texas she worked on My Wicked Wicked Ways, a collection of poems. In 1987, the grant money ran out so she attempted to begin a writing program. She couldn’t get enough people to join so she decided to get a teaching job at California State University.
She got another grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship but this time it was for fiction. It gave her the confidence to write Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her first contribution to the influential Norton of American Literature included six stories from the collection.
She won a MacArthur fellowship, one of three fiction writers, and two Latinas. She won two hundred fifty-five thousand dollars to be spent however she wanted. She created the Macondo Writing
They bought their first house in the north side of Chicago. It was a small, red bungalow and it didn’t have much privacy . She wrote poetry as a escape of the realities of her life. She didn’t share her poetry until one of her tenth grade teachers asked her to read it to the class. She was encouraged to be part of the school’s literary magazine and she became the editer. The small bungalow was an inspiration to her book The
House on Mango Street.
She went to Chicago’s Loyola University and her …show more content…
She felt she couldn’t compete with her peers, many had an advantaged background.
She used her experiences and other people’s to write The House on Mango Street. Over two million copies have been sold since it was first published.
After getting a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for poetry, in 1986 she moved to Texas. In Texas she worked on My Wicked Wicked Ways, a collection of poems. In 1987, the grant money ran out so she attempted to begin a writing program. She couldn’t get enough people to join so she decided to get a teaching job at California State University.
She got another grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship but this time it was for fiction. It gave her the confidence to write Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her first contribution to the influential Norton of American Literature included six stories from the collection.
She won a MacArthur fellowship, one of three fiction writers, and two Latinas. She won two hundred fifty-five thousand dollars to be spent however she wanted. She created the Macondo Writing