The Shelia Ortiz-Taylor Papers, 1957-1997.

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The Shelia Ortiz-Taylor Papers, 1957-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51276674

The collection includes drafts of novels, manuscripts, samples of writings from works as a university student.

4 linear ft. (9 boxes)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7637417

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Taylor, Sheila Ortiz, 1939-

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Sheila Ortiz-Taylor is a critically acclaimed Chicana novelist, poet and lecturer, and winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award (1997). Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Ortiz-Taylor began writing poetry and plays as early as junior high school. Upon graduation from high school, Ortiz-Taylor enrolled at UCLA where she married and relocated to Iowa where she worked as a nurse's aid with handicapped children and as a secretary. In 1961, she transferred to California...