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Author Biography:

Sandra Cisneros did not have a "normal" childhood. "As a person growing up in a society where the class norm was superimposed on a television screen, I couldn't understand why our home wasn't all green lawns and white wood like the ones in `Leave It To Beaver' and `Father Knows Best'"(Ghosts 72). She wanted desperately to believe that her poverty was just a temporary situation, so she looked toward stories to escape. More...
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/CISNEROSsandra.html (© Voices From the Gaps Women Writers of Color )

Other Biographical Resources for Sandra Cisneros:

• Biography of Author Sandra Cisneros by Eileen O'Conner
  http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_sandra_cisneros.html (Classic Notes)
  
  
• Biography - Criticism by Kelly Mathias
  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/CISNEROSsandra.htm
  (Voices From the Gaps - Women Writers of Color)
  
  
• Sandra Cisneros by Gale Literary Databases
  http://www.lasmujeres.com/sandracisneros/cisnerosbio.shtml (Las Mujeres)
  
  
• Sandra Cisneros - Biography from Gale Group
  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/bio/cisneros_s.htm

Interviews with Sandra Cisneros:

• Interview with Sandra Cisneros by Reed Dasenbrock
  Discussion on how Spanish language influences her writing
  http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/Authors/
  Sandra_Cisneros/interviesandra_cisneros.html (The Multicultural U. S. Fiction Web)