Esmeralda santiagos biography
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Esmeralda Santiago is the eldest of eleven children. She came to the United States from rural Puerto Rico at age thirteen. Her family settled in Brooklyn, where she had to learn English and brave her way through an oppressive urban environment, a cold climate, and a challenging new culture.
Esmeralda santiagos biography
Her transcultural experiences growing up poor and disenfranchised inspires her writing and forms the backbone of three memoirs, three novels, two anthologies, numerous essays, and the children’s book A Doll for Navidades.
Upon publication of the ground-breaking memoir When I was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda was hailed as “...a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority.” (Washington Post).
Her second memoir, Almost a Woman, received numerous “Best of Year” mentions and an Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her adaptation of the memoir into a film for PBS Masterpiece Theatre was critically acclaimed and received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broad