December 20, 1954 -
American novelist and short story writer
Author of "The House on Mango Street" (for which she won the American Book Award in 1985), "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories" (for which she was selected as the Noteworthy Book of the Year by The New York Times and The American Library Journal in 1991) and "Caramello" (for which she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2003)
American novelist and short story writer
Author of "The House on Mango Street" (for which she won the American Book Award in 1985), "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories" (for which she was selected as the Noteworthy Book of the Year by The New York Times and The American Library Journal in 1991) and "Caramello" (for which she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2003)
Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015
Awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature in 2019