Her literary papers are preserved in Texas at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists.

In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. Her classic, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago's Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class.

She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world.' It is an extraordinary achievement that will live on for years to come. The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident. 'The San Francisco Chronicle' has called 'The House on Mango Street' 'marvelous. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, 'The House on Mango Street' tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty.

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, 'The House on Mango Street' has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics even as it depicts a new American landscape. Here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.

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