Luis Urrea to Deliver Cultural Crossings Lecture on October 9
Award-winning author Luis Alberto Urrea will speak Friday, October 9, at 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料鈥檚 Main Classroom Auditorium, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.
Presented by 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料鈥檚 Cultural Crossings lecture series, Urrea鈥檚 appearance will include a book signing at 5:45 p.m., followed by a presentation titled 鈥淯niversal Border: From Tijuana to the World鈥 at 6:15 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Urrea, a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is the author of 14 books that span numerous genres. The Devil鈥檚 Highway, his 2004 nonfiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Lannan Literary Award. His highly acclaimed historical novels The Hummingbird鈥檚 Daughter (2005) and Queen of America (2011) tell the story of his great aunt Teresita Urrea, a Mexican folk hero at the turn of the 20th century.
Urrea won the American Book Award for his memoir, Nobody鈥檚 Son: Notes from an American Life, in 1999. The following year, he was inducted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.