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Victor L. Martinez (February 21, 1954 – February 18, 2011) was a Mexican American poet and author. He won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his first novel, ''Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida''.〔 ("National Book Awards – 1996" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26. (With acceptance speech by Martinez.)〕 ==Life== Martinez was the born in Fresno, California to migrant agricultural field workers of the Central Valley. He was one of twelve children.〔 〕 Victor attended California State University at Fresno and later obtained a graduate degree from Stanford University on a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. He began writing as a poet and published a book of poetry, "Caring for a House," in 1992. He was a member of Humanizarte, a collective of Chicano poets, and later of the Chicano/Latino Writers' Center of San Francisco.〔 〕 He supported himself with jobs as a welder, truck driver, firefighter, teacher, and office clerk.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Harper Collins )〕 In February 2011, he died of lung cancer at age 56 in San Francisco.〔 〕〔 〕 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「Victor Martinez (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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