| LC control no. | n 93032638 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3555.N4254 |
| Personal name heading | Engle, Margarita |
| Associated country | Cuba |
| Associated place | Pasadena (Calif.) Pomona (Calif.) Riverside (Calif.) |
| Address | margarita@margaritaengle.com |
| Birth date | 1951-09-02 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Iowa State University University of California, Riverside |
| Profession or occupation | Journalist Novelist Botanist Professor Irrigation specialist Columnist Short story author Poet |
| Found in | Her Singing to Cuba, 1993: CIP t.p. (Margarita M. Engle) bk. t.p. (Margarita Engle) p. 4 of cover (b. Los Angeles, Calif.; writes syndicated opinion columns and short stories; this is her first novel) Drum dream girl, c2015: title page (by Margarita Engle) Email from author, Aug. 1, 2016: (She wrote Singing to Cuba and other books for adults in the early '90s, but beginning in 2006, she switched to children's books. Drum dream girl is one of her children's titles) Soaring Earth, 2019: ECIP t.p. (Margarita Engle) ECIP data view (Margarita Engle is the national Young People's Poet Laureate, and the first Latino to receive that honor. She is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels. Her verse memoir is entitled Enchanted Air. She was born in Los Angeles) VIAF, BNF, viewed 17 February 2019: (Engle Margarita 1951-) <https://viaf.org/processed/BNF%7C16786278> Author's website, June 16, 2020: (Margarita Engle; margarita@margaritaengle.com; born in Los Angeles; Cuban American; author of several works including Drum dream girl and Soaring earth) <http://www.margaritaengle.com/about.html> <http://www.margaritaengle.com/books.html> Cintas Foundation website, June 16, 2020: (Margarita Engle (b. 1951, Pasadena, Calif.); botanist by training, Engle was a professor of agronomy and an irrigation specialist in California before she turned to writing; has been a columnist for the Hispanic Link News Service and her fiction has been published in many journals and magazines, including The Americas Review and Revista Interamericana; winner of the San Diego Book Award, and her young adult novel, The Surrender Tree, won a Newbery Honor award, a Pura BelpreĢ Medal, an Americas Award and a Jane Addams Award; her young adult novels in verse include The poet slave of Cuba, Tropical secrets, The firefly letters and The wild book; Cintas for literature, 1994-95)) <https://cintasfoundation.org/fellows/creative-writers/197-margarita-engle> Gale website, June 16, 2020: (Margarita Engle; born September 2, 1951 in Pasadena, California; maiden name was Mondrus; bachelor's from California State Polytechnic University (1974); Ph.D. from Iowa State University (1977); posdoctoral studies, University of California (Riverside) (1983); associate professor of agronomy, California State Polytechnic University (Ponoma) (1978-1982); botanist; poet; novelist; journalist) <https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=SATA&sw=w&v=2.1&id=CQMNHM118961785&it=r&asid=a7d66011cc7db80b2129811026b4f7b8&userGroupName=loc_main> |
| Associated language | spa |
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