Abigail Sauter

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Interview

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Publication Date

11-10-2025

Abstract

Author and educator, Francisco Jiménez emigrated with his family from Tlaquepaque, Mexico to California and as a child worked alongside his parents in the fields of California. He received his BA from Santa Clara University and an MA and Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Jiménez has published numerous award winning autobiographical works such as The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Cajas de cartón, Spanish edition), Breaking Through (Senderos fronterizos, Spanish edition), Reaching Out (Más allá de mí, Spanish edition), Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University, (Pasos firmes , Spanish edition) La Mariposa, and The Christmas Gift/El regalo de Navidad have won several national literary awards, including the John Steinbeck Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, to name a few. He has also been recognized by the United States Congress, the United States Department of Education, the California State Senate and the Governor and Minister of Culture of the State of Jalisco. Previously, he served as the Fay Boyle Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and served as Director of the Ethnic Studies Department at Santa Clara University from 2000 to 2005. Today, he is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University.

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Interviewer: Abigail Sauter - Gerontology minor

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