Helena Maria Viramontes

Helena Maria Viramontes (born February 26, 1954) is an American fiction writer and professor of English. She is known for her two novels, ''Under the Feet of Jesus'' and ''Their Dogs Came With Them'', and is considered one of the most significant figures in the early canon of Chicano literature. Viramontes is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University. Provided by Wikipedia