Life and Career
Mohr was raised in the Bronx.
In 1973, her book "Nilda", which traces the life of a teenage Puerto Rican girl who confronts prejudices during the World War II era in New York, was awarded the Jane Addams Children Book Award.
In 1975, her second book "El Bronx Remembered" was awarded the New Times Outstanding Book Award, thus becoming the first female Hispanic to receive such an honor.
From 1988 through 1991, she taught at Queens College, City University of New York. From 1994 through 1995, she was Writer-in-Residence at Richmond College, the American University in London.
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