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	Esmeralda Santiago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948 in San Juan, Puerto Rico).
		Santiago attended New York City's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance.
		Santiago is coeditor of the anthologies, Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories and Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember their Mothers both published by Knopf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esmeralda_Santiago (591 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Santiago, Esmeralda
		Esmeralda Santiago was born in Puerto Rico, the eldest of eleven children raised by a single mother.
		Santiago's memoir of her Puerto Rican childhood culminates in her move to New York, where she gained an education, but lost the sense of belonging, within a family and within a culture, once so strong in her childhood.
		Santiago writes with such clarity and fierceness that it is impossible for any person not to see, feel and understand what she went through in her remarkable journey.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/santiago_esmeralda.html (1328 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Esmeralda Santiago Discusses The Making Of Her Memoir "Almost A Woman" Into A Masterpiece ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ESMERALDA SANTIAGO (Author, "Almost a Woman"): Her relationship with my father was really not going to get any better than it had been, and she had relatives in New York.
		SANTIAGO: I wrote the screenplay, yes, in the language that the particular character was speaking, and then for myself I did not write any subtitles until I was ready to share it with the producers, because I really wanted to feel the life in Spanish.
		The title of Santiago's memoir is a translation of casi una mujer, a Spanish phrase her mother used often to describe her daughter, caught in the psychological limbo between childhood innocence and adolescent curiosity.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n39/EsmerSantiago-en.shtml (2198 words)

	The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature - Authors and Literary Works
		Santiago is the first of what will eventually be eleven children born to parents who are not married, and whose unmarried status is a source of constant tension in the household.
		Santiago describes her world, in both its beauty and its sadness, with a clear-eyed evocation of the tastes, smells, and sounds of the Puerto Rican countryside, and the rituals, concerns, and joys of her big, unruly family.
		Esmeralda Santiago's memoir is as much an aesthetic text as it is a historical document and life story.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/hslit/session4/aw/work2.html (1430 words)

	LaGuardia Community College Common Reading - Esmerelda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago was born on 17 May 1948 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
		Esmeralda was the oldest of eleven children: Esmeralda, Delsa, Norma, Héctor, Alicia, Edna, Raymond, Franky, Charlie, Cibi and Ciro.
		The first memoir focuses on Santiago's memories as a child; her narrative is punctuated with the ideas and thoughts of a child as she experiences many things for the first time.
	www.lagcc.cuny.edu /readingsantiago/author.htm (1376 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - ALMOST A WOMAN by Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Filled with wisdom and humor, Esmeralda Santiago's story is both universal and personal: the immigrant's search for belonging, the adolescent's search for identity, and the daughter's fight, often at a great cost to herself, for independence from a beloved but too powerful parent.
		Santiago feels that this fact kept her and her family from attaching too much importance to possessions, or even to friends.
		The same could be said of Esmeralda's observations of her father, and of some of the other men in her community.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/almost_a_woman.asp (1340 words)

	Lehman Brothers
		Esmeralda’s community activism was cited when she received a Girl Scouts of America National Woman of Distinction Award in March 2002 along with Alma Powell and Elizabeth Dole.
		Esmeralda is also a cultural ambassador who has been sponsored by the State Department to represent American and Latino life and literature in countries as diverse as Venezuela, The Republic of Udmurtia in the Russian Federation, the Dominican Republic and Kazakhstan.
		Esmeralda Santiago graduated Magna Cum laude from Harvard University, and has earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and Honorary Doctor of Letters from Trinity University, from Pace University and from Metropolitan College.
	www.lehman.com /events/2005TLAC/santiago_bio.html (506 words)

	Esmeralda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago is the eldest of eleven children.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/puerto/santiago.html (318 words)

	Amazon.ca: Almost a Woman: Books: Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Santiago's good humor, zest for life and fighting spirit permeate her chronicle and moderate the impact of the hard times she describes.
		Santiago's memoir traces her personal growth through her teenage years; she describes her relationships with her family, her early dating experiences, and her first sexual encounters.
		Santiago's descriptive prose and lively dialog draw the reader in; we are reminded of the pains and pleasures of adolescence and wonder what happens next in her life.
	www.amazon.ca /Almost-a-Woman-Esmeralda-Santiago/dp/037570521X (1760 words)

	AAW_dream_resources
		Santiago looks candidly at the complexity of her parents' relationship, unmarried but loving, and their resourcefulness in dealing with the harsh conditions of povertous rural life.
		Santiago's Negi is a brilliant sculpting of childhood innocence and acceptance.
		Santiago explains the confusion of being bilingual: Spanish is spoken in the home, but English in the world outside--children speak the language of their peers.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /aaw_dream_resources.htm (6276 words)

	Esmeralda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago was born in Puerto Rico, and like most other Puerto Rican children, spent most of her childhood growing up in poverty.
		At the age of four, her family moved to Macun, a barrio in which Esmeralda was to spend many of her early years until, as a teenager, she moved with her mother and her siblings to New York.
		When I Was Puerto Rican deals with the childhood of Esmeralda Santiago and how she came to understand many of the problems and stereotypes that were associated with her ethnicity.
	www.clarion.edu /edu-humn/libsci/buchanancoursesyl/santiago.htm (622 words)

	Amazon.ca: America's Dream: Books: Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Santiago, author of the memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, establishes herself as a strong and irresistible new voice in fiction with this story of a Puerto Rican woman who comes to America and discovers herself.
		Esmeralda Santiago is so descriptive and talented in her work.
		After reading Esmeralda Santiago's two biographies, I was pleasantly surprised to see this first work of fiction, and I wish she would hurry up and write another.
	www.amazon.ca /Americas-Dream-Esmeralda-Santiago/dp/0060928263 (1251 words)

	00.01.03: Truth and Identity in Autobiography: Teaching Esmeralda Santiago’s novel When I Was Puerto Rican
		Esmeralda Santiago spoke at the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference in New York City on Saturday, March 17, 2000.
		Esmeralda Santiago’s novel When I Was Puerto Rican is an autobiography that traces Santiago’s memoirs through her childhood in Puerto Rico and her transition from Puerto Rico to New York City.
		Santiago was in the midst of a new cultural conflict ñ she was criticized for the novel’s title and ultimately for her transition into mainstream American culture.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2000/1/00.01.03.x.html (6982 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN by Esmeralda Santiago
		Santiago describes herself and her family with affection and sadness.
		Santiago's chronicle of her Puerto Rican childhood and her family's move to the alien and frightening new world of New York City is a unique story of the survival of a strong individual, but it also gives insight into the lives of thousands of immigrants to this country.
		Santiago's narrative touches upon a number of issues that are currently the subject of intense debate in the United States: immigration quotas, cultural imperialism, bilingual education, birth control, and many others.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/when_i_was_puerto_rican.asp (1059 words)

	When I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Santiago gains entrance to New York City's Performing Arts High School and from there she is able to consider a future in college.
		Santiago's struggles and achievements in Brooklyn, New York are brilliantly brought to life enticing readers to follow Esmeralda's journey.
		Santiago's ability to interweave Spanish phrases and words into her autobiography makes her unique, in that she is uncompromising in hiding her identity; Santiago stays true to herself and her culture.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0679756760.html (427 words)

	Alibris: Santiago
		Santiago recounts her bi-cultural childhood: as a country girl in Puerto Rico, and as a highschool student at New York's High School of the Performing Arts where she graduated with the highest honors and went on to Harvard.
		Sequel to WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN, this volume continues the story of Esmeralda Santiago's growing up torn between her Puerto Rican roots and her new life in New York.
		The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Santiago (971 words)

	MetaxuCafe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Santiago also broached a more sensitive topic, that of Oyeyemi’s depression and attempted suicide when she was 15 years old.
		Santiago wondered if the physical struggle was psychologically damaging because it closed people off to their emotions.
		Santiago was very gracious in trying to call on as many people as she could before time ran out.
	metaxucafe.com /cafe/content/article/benettontalk_with_esmeralda_santiago_and_helen_oyeyemi (1490 words)

	ECSU Arts and Lecture Series: Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ESMERALDA SANTIAGO was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and migrated to the United States at age 13.
		Following her first book, When I was Puerto Rican, Santiago was hailed as “…a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority,” by the Washington Post Book World.
		Santiago’s essays and opinion pieces have run in the New York Times and the Boston Globe, as well as other publications.
	www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu /ecsu/arts_lecture/esmeralda_santiago.html (122 words)

	When I Was Esmeralda Santiago - 11/15/2005 - Criticas - CA6280819
		Santiago's first wanted to start writing, as a teenager, out of a need to find her own identity in the States.
		The intensity in Santiago's soul searching, fused with a survivalist's humor, may be what draws in so many of her fans.
		Post-Dulvan, Santiago has had a 28-year-long marriage with Frank Cantor, a filmmaker and the father of their two children Lucas and Ila, now in their 20s.
	www.criticasmagazine.com /article/CA6280819.html (922 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| American Collection \| Almost a Woman \| Essays + Interviews \| Esmeralda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago, the oldest of 11 children, grew up moving back and forth between the countryside and the city in Puerto Rico.
		Santiago now lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and children.
		Santiago has also written a highly praised novel, América's Dream; she is currently working on her second novel and her third volume of memoirs.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_santiago.html (2387 words)

	Amazon.de: When I Was Puerto Rican: English Books: Esmeralda Santiago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Santiago's memoir, she lovingly recalls her own passage through childhood, when her mother moved her children away from their father and the humble dwelling they all shared in the country outside San Juan to a Brooklyn apartment adjoining the projects.
		For Santiago, who at age 14 was an exceptional student but still spoke little English, the ticket out of the cycle of poverty was acceptance to New York City's High School of Performing Arts.
		When in the epilogue Santiago refers to her studies at Harvard, it is both a stirring and poignant reminder of the capacities of the human spirit.
	www.amazon.de /When-I-Was-Puerto-Rican/dp/0679756760 (1218 words)

	PEN American Center - Esmeralda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
		Santiago is co-editor of the anthologies, Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories and Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember their Mothers both published by Knopf.
		Santiago has earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and Honorary Doctor of Letters from Trinity University, from Pace University and from Metropolitan College.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1235 (500 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Esmeralda Santiago: From Images To Words And Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Santiago does not explicitly write for young readers, her books are frequently used in schools in Puerto Rico and the United States.
		Santiago's second memoir ''Almost a Woman,'' which was made into a film for ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater and was shown on PBS in the fall, has been named a 2003 winner of a George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in electronic media.
		Santiago lives in Katonah with her husband, Frank Cantor, and their two college-age children.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n27/EsmerSanti-en.shtml (869 words)

	Indigocafe.com :: Books :: The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago
		Along with Sandra Cisneros and Julia Alvarez, Esmeralda Santiago has emerged as one of today's preeminent Latina authors.
		In The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother-only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become
		Esmeralda's journey of self-liberation and self-discovery is a daring one, candidly and zestfully recounted, and leads, most improbably, to her triumphant graduation from Harvard.
	www.indigocafe.com /bookstore/book.php?TC=836 (128 words)

	El Andar: Spring 2000
		It was then when Esmeralda Santiago, now one of the best known Latina writers in the United States, had an epiphany: There would be another train.
		The oldest of eleven children, Esmeralda arrived in New York from Puerto Rico when she was thirteen years old.
		Esmeralda smiles back, optimistic and confident that there are many more trains yet to come.
	www.elandar.com /back/spring00/stories/story_esantiago.html (840 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Esmeralda Santiago
		In her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the...
		"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and...
		In the tradition of Black Ice, Santiago writes lyrically of her childhood on her native island and of her bewildering years of transition in New York City.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=26880 (371 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| American Collection \| Almost a Woman \| Links + Bibliography
		On her personal Web site, Esmeralda Santiago examines the process of creating a memoir and recounts some of the events that were significant in shaping her life and writing.
		Esmeralda Santiago's Almost a Woman is the first Book Club selection for the Fall 2002 season.
		From the Spring 2000 issue of the Latino magazine el Andar, this essay offers a glimpse into Esmeralda Santiago's past and present, providing unique insights on her life and discussing the emotions behind her writing.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/links.html (914 words)

	Esmeralda Santiago
		Esmeralda Santiago uses the art of literature to summarize her life in a way that many young people can relate to.
		As a scholarship student at Harvard University, she was filled with nostalgia as she ran into her mentor and finally looked into the room where her interview had taken place.
		Students may read about the achievements of Esmeralda (the character) and Esmeralda (the writer) and come away with a respect for Latina literature and culture.
	www.ualr.edu /teenread/id106.htm (1120 words)

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