Sandra Cisneros burst onto the publishing scene with her 1983 work, The House on Mango Street, the warm and human story of a young Chicana who comes of age in a Chicago barrio, fighting obstacles of racism, sexism, and cla ssism. With that single book, C...

With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Jim Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different from...

Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) creates characters who are distinctly Hispanic and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emphasizing dialogue and sensory imagery over traditional...