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BIOGRAPHY
Nicholasa Mohr was born in 1935 in New York, New York, after her
parents immigrated from Puerto Rico. Her father died when she was eight
years old, leaving her mother with seven children. In order to escape the
poverty that surrounded her, Mohr used her fantastic imagination to
express her feelings. Her artistic talents helped earn her much praise in
school and gave her the confidence which led to her success as an author.
After graduating from high school in 1953 she went to the Arts
Student's League, an art school located in New York. Here she discovered
the works of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco which inspired her to
study Hispanic art and travel to Mexico City. After a year she returned to
the United States and attended the New School for Social Research. Then in
1959 she went to Brooklyn Museum of Art School. Throughout her studies
Mohr was drawn to this type of art work because of its powerful message
about social change.
Mohr
began to express herself using bold letters and symbols in her paintings.
She attempted to tell stories through these works. Eventually she switched
from painting to short stories. It took a few tries for a publisher to
offer her a contract, but when he did, she started writing her first book,
Nilda. Many of Mohr's books are about characters growing up in
Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City, much like herself.
Today, Mohr has written thirteen books, primarily aimed towards young
adults, and has won numerous awards for her writing. She currently resides
in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, where she continues to write. Her
latest book, Untitled Nicholasa Mohr, was just released in February
of 1998 and is available in a local bookstore near you!
Works by the Author:
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Untitled Nicholasa Mohr
(1998) |
A Matter of Pride &
other stories (1997) |
Old Letivia & the
Mountain of Sorrows (1996) |
The Song of El Coqui &
Other tales of Puerto Rico (1995) |
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| The Magic Shell
(1995) |
Growing
Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination (1994) |
All For the Better: A
Story of El Barrio (1993) |
Going Home (1986) |
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| Rituals of Survival: A
Woman's Portfolio (1985) |
Felita (1979) |
In Nueva York (1977) |
El Bronx Remembered: A
Novella & Stories (1975) |
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| Nilda (1973) |
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Essays by the author:
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MOHR, Nicholasa. ---. "ON Being Authentic"
*---. "Puerto Rican Writers in the U.S.,
Puerto Rican Writers in Puerto Rico: A Separation Beyond Language." Horno-Delgado
111-16. Breaking Boundaries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1989.
*---. "The Journey Toward a Common Ground:
Struggle and Identity of Hispanics in the U.S.A." The Americas Review
18: 1 (Spring 1990): 81-85.
*---. "Puerto Ricans in New York: Cultural
Evolution and Identity." Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in
Two World Contexts. Ed. Asela Rodriguez de Laguna. New Brunswick:
Transaction Books, 1987. 171-177.
*---. "Latina Writer: A Brief Perspective."
Latinos in the US review 1994, 23.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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MY ARTICLES:
Works about the Author:
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ACOSTA‑BELÉN, Edna,0"Conversations with
Nicholasa Mohr." Revista Chicano-Riqueña 8.2 (1980): 35-41. |
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Bellver Sáez, Pilar.
"Nilda
De Nicholasa Mohr: El Bildungsroman y La Aparición De Un Espacio
Puetorriqueño En La Literatura De Los EEUU." Atlantis: journal of the
Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies: 101-113. |
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Callahan, Laura. "The Role of Register in
Spanish-English Codeswitching in Prose." Bilingual Review 27.1
(2003): 12-25. |
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De Nicolo, Christina P., and Maria E.
Franquiz. ""Do I have to say it?": Critical Encounters with Multicultural
Children's Literature." Language Arts 84.2 (2006): 157-170.
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FERNÁNDEZ OLMOS, Margarite. "From the
metropolis: Puerto rican Women Poets and the Immigration Experience."
Third Woman 1:2 (1982), 40-51.
---. "Survival, Growth, and Change in the
Prose Fiction of Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers." Asela Rodriguez
de Langua, ed. Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Two World
Contexts. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1987, 76-88.
---. "Growing Up Puertorriquenha: The
Feminist Buildungsroman and the Novels of Nicholasa Mohr and Magali Garcia
Ramis." Centro 2 (7)(1989-1990): 56-73. |
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Kevane, Bridget and Juanita Heredia.
Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. “Palante: An
Interview with Nicholasa Mohr,” 83-96. |
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MILLER, John. "The Emigrant and the City:
Four Puerto Rican writers.” MELUS 5.3 (1978): 82‑99.
---. "Nicholasa Mohr: Neorican Writing in
Progress." Revista /Review Interamericana 9.4 (1979/80) 543‑49.
---. "Nicholasa Mohr." IN Modern Latin
American Fiction Writers, Secodn Series. Edited by William Luis and
Ann González. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. |
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MOHR, Eugene V. The Nuyorican
Experience. Literature of teh Puerto Rican Monority. Wesport,
Conneticut and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1982. 5. A Woman’s
Perspective (Nicholasa Mohr) |
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*MULLER, Gilbert H. “Metropolitan Dreams:
Latino Voyagers from the Caribbean, Puerto Ricans and the promised land” (Sobre
Mohr, Santiago y Cofer). New Strangers in Paradise: The immigrant
Experience and Contemporary American Fiction. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 1999, 93-137. |
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Natov, Roni and Geraldine Peluca. “An
Interview with Nicholasa Mohr.” The Lion and the Unicorn 11.1
(1987): 116-121. |
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OCASIO, Rafael. "From Nuyorican Barrio
to Issues on Puerto Rican Literature Outside New York City: Nicholasa Mohr
and Judith Ortiz Cofer." Literature and Ethnic Discrimination.
Ed. Michael J. Meyer. Amsterdan, Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997. 187-203. |
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Rivera, Carmen S. Chapter 2: “Nicholasa Mohr
and the Negation/Negotiation of the Mother/Daughter Relationship.”
Kissing the Mango Tree: Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literatura.
Houston: Arte Público Press, 2002. |
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Vasquez, Mary S. "Border Spaces in Nicholasa
Mohr’s Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination." Bilingual
Review 26.1 (2002): 26-33. |
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RODRIGUEZ-LUIS, Julio. "De Puerto Rico a
Nueva York: Protagonistas femeninas en busca de un espacio propio." La
Torre. Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 7. 27-28 (1993):
577-594. |
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Vellón-Benítez, Susan. Palabras de mujer:
Convergencias en el discurso femenino en la narrativa caribeña de origen
hispano escrita en los Estados Unidos.” Ph. D. Dissertation. Dep.. of
Modern Languages, The Florida State University, 2003.130 pp. (ON Mohr |
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ZARNOWSKI, Myra. "An Interview with Author
Nicholasa Mohr." The Reading Teacher 45.2 (October 1991): 100-106.
---. "Growing Up Puerto Rican: The Fiction
of Nicholasa Mohr." Dragon Lode 9 (1991): 5-8.
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