Cisneros collection, 1984-2001.

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Cisneros collection, 1984-2001.

The collection includes typescripts or photocopied typescripts of six stories that eventually appeared in Woman Hollering Creek (Random House, 1991), one unpublished story, an unpublished speech, an interview, and a biographical sketch. There is also a bound volume of part of Cisneros' novel, Caramelo, distributed to friends for comment about eighteen months before publication.

1 archive box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667542

Amherst College. Library

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Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (San Antonio, Tex.)

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Cisneros, Sandra

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Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 and raised in Chicago. Cisneros is the daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. She was educated in the Midwest before moving to the Southwest in 1984. Cisneros graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has lived in San Antonio for most of the last twenty years. She has worked as a teacher to high school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and most recently, as a visiting writer at a nu...