Author Luis Alberto Urrea’s coming visit to Boise strikes a chord with Hispanic community - Idaho

With his blue eyes, sandy blond hair and persistent half-smile, Luis Alberto Urrea could be from anywhere, and the blood in his veins is as motley as his writing.

Born in Tijuana to a father from the Mexican state of Sinaloa and a mother from New York, his award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays and short stories come from both sides of the border.

Urrea caught the world’s eye in 1993 with the Christopher Award-winning “Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border.” Seven years and six acclaimed books later, he was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.”*

*From: http://www.idahostatesman.com
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