Esmeralda Santiago
Puerto Rico
Nació en San Juan, Puerto Rico, en 1948 y se mudó a Estados Unidos a los 13 años. Se graduó de la Universidad de Harvard y obtuvo después una Maestría de Letras en el Sarah Lawrence College y un doctorado en el Trinity University. Es autora de los libros de memorias Cuando era puertorriqueña, Casi una mujer, y El amante turco, entre otros. Su obra ha aparecido en The New York Times, The Boston Globe y House & Garden, así como en programas de NPR. Presentará en la Feria su reciente novela histórica, Conquistadora (Alfaguara, 2011).
Set in mid-19th-century Puerto Rico, Esmerelda Santiago's historical novel, Conquistadora (Knopf, $27.50) is the epic story of Ana Larragoity Cubillas, who faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside, even as she relishes the challenge of running her sugar plantation, Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the U.S. Civil War breaks out, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built. Santiago is the author of three memoirs: When I Was Puerto Rican,Almost a Woman -- which she adapted into a Peabody Award–winning film for PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre -- and The Turkish Lover; the novel América’s Dream; and a children’s book, A Doll for Navidades.
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