Summary: Thursday Sandra Cisneros received the National Medal of the Arts, the highest honor given for achievement in the arts. Cisneros said she accepted the medal to honor her family and all other hard working Mexican Americans. Sandra Cisneros said she briefly thought about turning down the trip to Washington D.C. to accept the National Medal of the Arts. “At first I wasn’t sure if I should go. I just started a new book and I wanted to be home writing, ” she said. But the part-time resident of San
