LUIS ALBERTO URREA
Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of The Devil’s Highway, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. He is also the author of Across the Wire, winner of the Christopher Award, and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and the Lannan Award for Nonfiction, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His poetry has been collected in The Best American Poetry, and his most recent book, 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 at Chicago.

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Spring 2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
Spring 2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Spring 2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
Spring 2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

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