1980's The Arts | The House on Mango Street

Novel

By: Sandra Cisneros

Date: 1984

Source: Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. 1984. Reprint, New York: Vintage, 1991, 3–5.

About the Author: Sandra Cisneros (1954–) was born in Chicago and grew up in Humboldt Park, Illinois. She earned an undergraduate B.A. degree from Loyola University in 1976 and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa Writers Program in 1978. Cisneros is a Chicano activist and feminist, traits that are reflected in her fiction and poetry. She was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1982, 1988; the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, 1991; and the MacArthur fellow, 1995.

Introduction

The House on Mango Street was first published by a small press, Arte Publico, in 1984. When it was re-published in 1989 by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, the book gained a broader readership beyond the...