Engle, Margarita
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Fuller Name
- Margarita M.
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1951-09-02
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Address:
- Email: [email protected]
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1982
- Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1977
- Organization: Iowa State University
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1983
- Organization: University of California, Riverside
Birth Place
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
Associated Locale
- Pasadena (Calif.)
Associated Locale
- Pomona (Calif.)
Associated Locale
- Riverside (Calif.)
Associated Locale
- Cuba
Associated Language
- Spanish
Occupation
Journalist
Novelist
Botanist
Professor
Irrigation specialist
Columnist
Short story author
Poet
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Sources
- found: 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)
- found: Drum dream girl, c2015:title page (by Margarita Engle)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
- found: VIAF, BNF, viewed 17 February 2019:(Engle Margarita 1951-) - https://viaf.org/processed/BNF%7C16786278
- found: Author's website, June 16, 2020:(Margarita Engle; [email protected]; 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
- found: 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 Belpré 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
- found: 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
LC Classification
- PS3555.N4254
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Change Notes
- 1993-04-08: new
- 2023-05-24: revised
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