An Evening with Sandra Cisneros

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  • April 15, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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Tue, 04/16/2013 - 1:25pm
Part of the 2013 Centre County Reads programming. Join us at the State Theatre for a discussion with prize-winning author Sandra Cisneros.

Sandra Cisneros will talk about the genesis of Caramelo and then respond to questions from the audience about her work. Everyone welcome!

Monday, April 15 at the State Theatre.

Cisneros is the author of the novels Caramelo (Knopf, 2002) and The House on Mango Street (Vintage, 1991), as well as Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Random House, 1991) and two poetry collections, Bad Boys (Mango Press, 1990) and My Wicked Wicked Ways (Third Woman, 1987 / Random House, 1992). Her books have been awarded the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and many other honors. She is the 2013 Steven Fisher Writer-in-Residence at Penn State