Sandra Cisneros


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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
December 20, 1954

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Sandra Cisneros is internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.

Cisneros is the author of two novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo; a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek; two books of poetry, My Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and a children's book, Hairs/Pelitos.

She is the founder of the Macondo Foundation, an association of writers united to serve underserved communities (), and is Writer in Residence at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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Average rating: 3.75 · 267,716 ratings · 24,677 reviews · 96 distinct worksSimilar authors
The House on Mango Street

3.69 avg rating — 221,388 ratings — published 1984 — 160 editions
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Caramelo

3.93 avg rating — 12,960 ratings — published 2002 — 76 editions
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Woman Hollering Creek and O...

4.05 avg rating — 11,102 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions
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Loose Woman

4.21 avg rating — 4,859 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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Woman Without Shame: Poems

4.10 avg rating — 2,254 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

4.17 avg rating — 1,996 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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A House of My Own: Stories ...

4.29 avg rating — 1,866 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions
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Have You Seen Marie?

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3.94 avg rating — 1,628 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions
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Martita, I Remember You/Mar...

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3.68 avg rating — 1,719 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions
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Woman Hollering Creek & The...

4.21 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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