Latina Annysa Polanco, Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion Penguin Random House is using her role to integrate diversity in the organization which will hopefully increase diversity in books.
The Spanish writer Ana María Matute wrote works about misery, alienation, violence, isolation, betrayal and the loss of innocence. Nonetheless, her 88 years of life, which sadly came to an end today due to a fatal heart attack in the northeastern city of Barcelona, was marked with great achievement and success.
Spanish Harlem, also known as "El Barrio" or East Harlem, is known for being the point of origin for a number of notable people: singer Marc Anthony, musician Frankie Cutlass, rapper Cam'ron, actor Al Pacino, rapper Tupac, poet Willie Perdomo, and bookstore owner Aurora Anaya-Cerda, who is the founder of La Casa Azul Bookstore.
Jack Kerouac, the famed American novelist, wrote the postwar Beat Generation novel, "On the Road," which documented his travels as he journeyed across America. One chapter in the book focuses on Kerurac’s sexual relationship with a Latina farm worker, who Kerouac called “Terry, the Mexican girl,” a woman who was fleeing from an abusive husband and left her two children behind to do so. Novelist, performance artist and poet Tim Z. Hernandez uncovered “the Mexican girl’s” true identity, Bea Franco, and created his own work, "Mañana Means Heaven," about Franco’s life.
