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Luis Alberto Urrea (born 1955 Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist. ==Life== Urrea is the son of a Mexican father and an American mother. He attended the University of California, San Diego, earning an undergraduate degree in writing, and did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After serving as a relief worker in Tijuana, and a film extra and columnist-editor-cartoonist for several publications, Urrea moved to Boston where he taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard University. He has also taught at Massachusetts Bay Community College, and the University of Colorado, and he was the writer in residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.〔http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82687〕 In two heavily researched historical novels, ''The Hummingbird's Daughter'' and ''Queen of America'', Urrea tells the story of his great-aunt, Teresita Urrea, who was known as "The Saint of Cabora" and "The Mexican Joan of Arc". ''The Devil's Highway'' is his 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert. Urrea was a speaker at the 2008 Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and the 2008 Banned Books Week Read-Out, Chicago.〔http://alfocus.ala.org/tags/luis-alberto-urrea〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luís Alberto Urrea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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