Luis Alberto Urrea: "The Devil's Highway: Stories from the Border and Beyond" April 15, 2009

Free and Open to the Public. Call 864-2529 for more info.

Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Luis
Alberto Urrea has written 11 books, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird's Daughter, a novel, and The Devil's Highway, a nonfictional account of 14 undocumented border crossers who died in the Arizona desert in 2001. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Devil's Highway, Urrea has also won the Kiriyama Prize for fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, and a Western States Book Award. Among his other nonfiction work is: Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border and By the Lake of Sleeping Children.

Sponsored by the English Department and the Hall Center for the Humanities. Co-Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Studies Program, the Latino/a Studies Minor, the Office of the Chancellor, and the Office of the Provost.