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Esmeralda Santiago

Biography

Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the novels LAS MADRES and CONQUISTADORA and the memoirs WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN and ALMOST A WOMAN, which was adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie for PBS’s "Masterpiece Theatre." Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lives with her husband, documentary filmmaker Frank Cantor, in New York, and Port Clyde, Maine.

Esmeralda Santiago