Amost A Woman
by Esmeralda Santiago
List Price: $12.00
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 037570521X
Publisher: Vintage
Esmeralda Santiago is the eldest of eleven children. She spent her childhood
in Puerto Rico, moving back and forth between a tiny village and Santurce,
a suburb of San Juan. With her mother and siblings she moved to New York
in 1961, at the age of thirteen. She attended junior high school in Brooklyn,
and Performing Arts High School in Manhattan. After the extraordinary
years described in her two memoirs, When I Was Puerto Rican and
Almost a Woman, she graduated from Harvard University and received
a master's degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Santiago is also the author
of América's Dream and is coeditor, with Joie Davidow, of
Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories.
Santiago lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and two
children.
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