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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family.   1  the only girl in a family of     2   children, she often   3   she had "seven fathers, " because her six brothers,   4   her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and   5  , she retreated (躲避) into books.  6    her love of   7  , she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to take part in the activities in school.      In high school, with the   8   of one particular teacher, Cisneros   9   her grades and worked for the school literary (文藝) magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to  10   because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a   11  . Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university's Writers' Workshop,   12  , she felt lonely-a(n)  13   American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different   14   Cisneros find her "Creative voice."      "It was not until this moment   15   I considered myself truly different that my writing got a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn't think it had anything to  16   with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That's when I decided I would   17   about something my classmates couldn't."      Cisneros  18  her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl  19   up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level.   20   then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children's book, and a short-story collection.

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