Manzano’s memoir, “Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx,” a chronicle of her journey from an impoverished childhood amid domestic violence to adulthood, was released in late August. Though she’s no longer working with the Muppets – besides playing Maria, she was also a writer for the show and won 15 Emmys for that work – it does not mean that she’s idle. “I always say I meant to do it five years ago, but I forgot.” Her listeners “gasped and they tweeted it,” she said on a recent Wednesday over lunch, at a modest Mexican restaurant in her Upper West Side neighborhood. Naturally, a wave of sadness and nostalgia followed news of her retirement from the show, which she mentioned in an almost orn1and way during a speech in July at the annual conference of the American Library Association. Manzano played Maria on Sesame Street for 44 years. Some of the familiarity comes from the fact that Ms. Talking to Sonia Manzano feels like catching up with an old friend. Maria, here in 2011 with Big Bird and Gordon (Roscoe Orman). “Sesame Street” was “like a reality show without the whining,” says Sonia Manzano, a.k.a.
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