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About the Author



Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana, Mexico, to an American mother and a Mexican father. His bestselling novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter, the result of twenty years of research and writing, is a fictionalized retelling of the life of Teresa Urrea, the “Saint of Cabora.”

He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame.

His nonfiction works include The Devil’s Highway, which was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction; Across the Wire, winner of the Christopher Award; and By the Lake of Sleeping Children.

His poetry has been collected in The Best American Poetry, and a collection of his short fiction, Six Kinds of Sky, won the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Editor’s Choice for Fiction.

He teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago.