Helena Maria Viramontes

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Helena Maria Viramontes
A photograph of Helena Maria Viramontes at the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival September 30, 2006.
Born	(1954-02-26) February 26, 1954 (age 70) East Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupations	Novelist writer professor
Known for	Under the Feet of Jesus Their Dogs Came With Them
Academic background
Alma mater	Immaculate Heart College (BA) Cal State Los Angeles UC Irvine (MFA)
Academic work
Institutions	Cornell University
Main interests	Chicano literature

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.^[1]