BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Inprint - ECPv4.9.12//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Inprint X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://inprinthouston.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Inprint BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20150308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20151101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151012T210000 DTSTAMP:20240420T075936 CREATED:20150715T212859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190717T145702Z UID:5026-1444678200-1444683600@inprinthouston.org SUMMARY:Inprint Sandra Cisneros Reading DESCRIPTION:\nPresented in association with Rice University Multicultural Community Relations in the Office of Public Affairs.\n\nSANDRA CISNEROS “is a writer for all people\,” proclaims USA Today\, and The New York Times Book Review says she is “not only a gifted writer\, but an absolutely essential one.” Her works include two highly acclaimed novels\, a story collection\, two poetry collections\, and an adult picture book. The first female Mexican-American writer to be published by a mainstream publisher\, Cisneros is best known for her debut novel The House on Mango Street\, which won the American Book Award\, sold more than two million copies\, and is now considered a literary classic. Her 2003 novel Caramelo was nominated for the Orange Prize\, and her story collection Woman Hollering Creek won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. Cisneros\, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship and a Texas Medal for the Arts\, is founder of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral and Macondo Foundations\, which serve creative writers. She comes to Houston to share her new memoir A House of My Own\, which will be published in October 2015—a richly illustrated and poignant compilation of private\, political\, and literary stories and nonfiction pieces that span three decades.\nReading followed by an on-stage interview\, book sale and signing. To order books by Sandra Cisneros at a discount click here. To submit questions for Sandra Cisneros click here. To learn more about the 2015/2016 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series click here.\nLINKS:\nInterview with Sandra Cisneros in The Missouri Review\n“PALABRAS; Sandra Cisneros Talks Libraries\, Love\, Photography\, Spirituality\, and Tattoos\,” from Latin Post\nSandra Cisneros Sells her House in San Antonio’s Historic King William District in the Texas Monthly\nSandra Cisneros talks about the story behind The House on Mango Street \n  \n URL:https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-sandra-cisneros-reading/ LOCATION:Stude Concert Hall\, Rice University\, Entrance #18 & #20\, 6100 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States CATEGORIES:2020/2021 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inprinthouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sandra-Cisneros_credit-to-Alan-Goldfarb.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR