Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an award-winning American radical feminist writer. She died from diabetes. Before she died she had been writing a book. She edited This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color with Cherríe Moraga. Her most well known book is Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. She was born in the Rio de Grande valley of south Texas. She was a lesbian. She wrote books for children in English and Spanish. They are illustrated by Consuelo Mendez.

Awards
Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1986) - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award (1991)Book Awards - Lambda Literary Awards
Lesbian Rights Award (1991)
Sappho Award of Distinction (1992)
National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award (1991)
American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award (Bode-Pearson Prize - 2001).ASA Awards and Prizes | American Studies Association

Her work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza was recognized as one of the 38 best books of 1987 by Library Journal and 100 Best Books of the Century by both Hungry Mind Review and Utne Reader.

In 2012, she was listed as one of the 31 LGBT history "icons" by the organizers of LGBT History Month.

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