How does a MacArthur fellowship change lives? Six Chicago winners offered to tell us. Sandra Cisneros Fiction writer, essayist, and poet Won $255,000 in 1995, when she was 40 Photo: Alan Goldfarb “The award let me spend more time with my father, who was dying while I was in the middle of working on my … Read more
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