She died on the morning of January 20, 2013, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She had no prior training in writing advice. In 1998 Prida took control of Latina's advice column. Mount Holyoke College granted her an honorary degree, a Doctor of Humane Letters, in 1989. The Manhattan Borough President presented her with the third award. For her playwrighting she won the Cintas Fellowship Award for Literature in 1976, the Creative Artistic Public Service Award for Playwriting in 1976, and the Excellence in Arts Award in 1987. In the 1970s and 1980s she became the senior editor of Nuestro magazine, the managing editor of El Tiempo, Visión magazine's New York correspondent, the director of information services of the National Puerto Rican Forum, the literary manager of the International Arts Relations (INTAR), and the publications director of the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA). She later entered the publishing industry and became a journalist. She attended Hunter College, taking night classes while working at a bakery. Prida lived in New York City for the rest of her life.
In 1961, two years after the departure of their father, Prida and her mother and two siblings left Cuba. Shortly after the completion of the Cuban Revolution, her father left for the United States, fleeing in a boat. While she was a teenager, Prida wrote poetry and short stories. Prida was born on Septemin Caibarién, Cuba. Prida was a founding member of the Latina magazine.
At Latina she wrote her "Dolores Dice" ("Dolores says" in Spanish) column. She also contributed to Latina magazine and the New York Daily News. She wrote for a weekly column of the El Diario La Prensa. Shoichet of CNN said that she was a "Latina Dear Abby". Dolores Prida (Septem– January 20, 2013) was a Cuban-American columnist and playwright.
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