Nina Marie Martinez was among 10 authors to receive this year’s Whiting Writers’ Award, which comes with a $40,000 cash prize.
Tagged: latina, San Jose“Nina Marie Martinez was born in San Jose, the daughter of a first-generation Mexican American prune-picker-turned-building contractor and a German American stay-at-home mother. A high school dropout, she was a single mom at 20, supporting herself and her daughter by reselling flea-market finds. Soon, she was a vintage-clothing maven and decided to go back to school to study business.
“All I knew was that I needed money, and if you needed money, you studied business,” she says. But taking general education classes reminded her of one of her first loves, literature. (The other was the Giants.)”
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October 26th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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