Esmeralda Santiago



Esmeralda Santiago

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born January 01, 1948
gender female
place of birth Puerto Rico
genre Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

about this author

Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948 in San Juan, Puerto Rico). Is a renowned Puerto Rican author In 1961, she came to the United States when she was thirteen years old, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship. She studied film production and graduated in 1976 magna cum laude. Shortly after graduation, she and her husband, Frank Cantor, founded CANTOMEDIA, a film and media production company, which has won numerous awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking.

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books by Esmeralda Santiago

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avg rating: 3.87 | 985 ratings | 6 distinct works
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Mem... When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago
avg rating 3.98 — 41 ratings — published 2006
9 editions
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Casi una mujer Casi una mujer (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1999
9 editions
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El Amante Turco/the Turkish Lo... El Amante Turco/the Turkish Lover (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 2005
4 editions
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Las Christmas: escritores lati... Las Christmas: escritores latinos recuerdan las tradiciones navideñas (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago, Joie Davidow
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1998
3 editions
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El sueño de América El sueño de América (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1997
6 editions
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Una muneca para el dia de reye... Una muneca para el dia de reyes (Paperback)
by Esmeralda Santiago
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2005
2 editions
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quotes by Esmeralda Santiago

"It' her life, and she' in the middle of it."
Esmeralda Santiago (America's Dream)
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"The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. "
Esmeralda Santiago (The Turkish Lover)
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"We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt."
Esmeralda Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican)
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