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Monica Brown (author)
Peruvian-American academic and author
Mónica Brown (born October 24, 1969) is an American academic and author of children's literature. Known for her Lola Levine and Sarai chapter book series, as well as numerous biographies covering such Latin American luminaries as Tito Puente,[1]Celia Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez, she writes relatable characters that highlight the nuance and diversity of the Latinx experience and girl empowerment.[2][3] Her motivation is to show that bicultural children are not made up of cultural fractions but whole people with a rich and vibrant cultural heritage, such as her character the bicultural red-headed Peruvian-Scottish-American Marisol McDonald.[4] Brown is also an English professor at Northern Arizona University.
Early life
Brown was born on October 24, 1969, in Mountain View, California, to Isabel Maria Vexler Valdivieso from Piura, Peru, and Daniel Doronda Brown from San Francisco. Monica is Mestiza and Romanian-Jewish on her mother's side and Hungarian
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Monica Brown, Latina poet
Monica Brown’s mother always told her she was a “citizen of the world.” Born in Mountain View, California, Brown is the daughter of a Peruvian mother and a father of mixed Scottish-European descent. Many of Brown’s childhood memories center around her mother. “She was a really amazing woman that I was really close to,” she says. “She was a fun, creative woman. She was an artist. And a storyteller, too. I loved hearing stories about her childhood.”
Brown’s love of Latin American culture guided her career path. Originally a journalist in Guadalajara, Mexico, she is now a tenured professor of English specializing in Latino and multicultural literature at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The author of several scholarly books and articles in her field, she branched out to children’s literature as a cultural consultant for a new bilingual publishing imprint as a favor to a former student-turned-editor. “It was the perfect storm,” Brown says. “My children were picture book age and it seemed a natural evolution of my writing career.” Her books cover a
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Biography
Monica Brown is the award-winning author over thirty magical multicultural picture books for children including Waiting for the Biblioburro, Marisol McDonald Doesn't M
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