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| Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. 1 the only girl in a family of 2 children, she often 3 she had "seven fathers, " because her six brothers, 4 her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and 5 , she retreated (躲避) into books. 6 her love of 7 , she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to take part in the activities in school. In high school, with the 8 of one particular teacher, Cisneros 9 her grades and worked for the school literary (文艺) magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to 10 because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a 11 . Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university's Writers' Workshop, 12 , she felt lonely-a(n) 13 American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different 14 Cisneros find her "Creative voice." "It was not until this moment 15 I considered myself truly different that my writing got a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn't think it had anything to 16 with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That's when I decided I would 17 about something my classmates couldn't." Cisneros 18 her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl 19 up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. 20 then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children's book, and a short-story collection. | ||||
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