Luis Alberto Urrea
Autore di The Hummingbird's Daughter
Sull'Autore
Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of many books of nonfiction and poetry. He has won the Christopher Award, the Western States Book Award, and most recently, the American Book Award.
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Opere di Luis Alberto Urrea
Hummingbirds Daughter" 1 copia
True Story 1 copia
La hija de la esperanza 1 copia
Sinekkuşu'nun Kızı 1 copia
Amapola 1 copia
Father Returns from the Mountain 1 copia
Opere correlate
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 563 copie
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Collaboratore — 234 copie
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) (2008) — Prefazione — 127 copie
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010) — Collaboratore — 85 copie
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads (2016) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1955-08-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Tijuana, Mexico
- Luogo di residenza
- Tijuana, Mexico
San Diego, California, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA (mostra tutto 7)
Naperville, Illinois, USA - Istruzione
- University of California, San Diego
University of Colorado - Attività lavorative
- author
professor - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Western States Book Award (Poetry ∙ 1996)
Latino Literature Hall of Fame (2000)
Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction ∙ 2004)
Pulitzer Prize Finalist (2005)
Kiriyama Prize (2006)
American Book Award (1999) - Agente
- Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Michael Cendejas (Lynn Pleshette Agency ∙ Lynn Pleshette Agency)
Trinity Ray (American Program Bureau ∙ American Program Bureau)
Julie Barer (Barer Literary ∙ LLC) - Breve biografia
- Luis Alberto Urrea (born August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.
Luis Urrea is the son of Alberto Urrea Murray, of Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico and Phyllis Dashiell, born in Staten Island, New York. He was born on August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico, and listed as an American born abroad. Both his parents worked in San Diego. In 1958 the family moved to Logan Heights in South San Diego, because he had tuberculosis and they felt he would recover in the US. The family moved again in 1965 to Clairemont, a newer subdivision in the city of San Diego. His mother encouraged him to write and encouraged him to attend college and to apply for grants that would help pay for his college education. He attended the University of California, San Diego, earning an undergraduate degree in writing in 1977. Urrea completed his graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His father died by murder on a trip to his home village in 1977, seeking money there to spend on his son's college education. This motivated Urrea to write an essay that was published in 1980, as way of processing his grief.
After serving as a relief worker in Tijuana, he worked as a teachers aid in the Chicano Studies department in San Diego's Mesa College in 1978. He also worked as a film extra and columnist-editor-cartoonist for several publications. In June 1982 Urrea moved to Boston where he taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard University. He has also taught at Massachusetts Bay Community College, and the University of Colorado, and he was the writer in residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Urrea married in 1987, and later divorced in 1993. In 1994, Urrea's first novel, In Search of Snow, was published. His mother died in 1990, bringing Urrea back to California to settle her affairs, and parts of Across the Wire were published in the San Diego Reader.
Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In two heavily researched historical novels, The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America, Urrea tells the story of his father's aunt, Teresita Urrea, who was known as "The Saint of Cabora" and "The Mexican Joan of Arc."
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- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 21
- Utenti
- 5,897
- Popolarità
- #4,186
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 285
- ISBN
- 101
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 15