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Sandra Cisneros


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

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction


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 (www.macondofoundation.org), and is Writer in Residence at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. She lives in San Antonio, Texas. ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 283,899 ratings · 26,483 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors
The House on Mango Street
3.68 avg rating — 236,369 ratings — published 1984 — 162 editions
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Caramelo
3.93 avg rating — 13,193 ratings — published 2002 — 76 editions
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Woman Hollering Creek and O...
4.05 avg rating — 11,330 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions
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Loose Woman
4.21 avg rating — 4,922 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Woman Without Shame: Poems
4.10 avg rating — 2,383 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
4.16 avg rating — 2,028 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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A House of My Own: Stories ...
4.30 avg rating — 1,905 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions
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Woman Hollering Creek & The...
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July 2017 Short Story Poll

 
  82 votes, 25.3%

 
  61 votes, 18.8%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages 1952
 
  42 votes, 13.0%

 
  36 votes, 11.1%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917
 
  30 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  26 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903
 
  15 votes, 4.6%

 
  13 votes, 4.0%

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