The Truman Journalism Program welcomes LUIS ALBERTO URREA for the Spring 2006 Guest Speaker Series (time/place TBA).
Urrea is a member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame, and his book The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (2004) was a National Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a searing piece of investigative reporting that follows the fate of Mexican border-crossers who perished in the Arizona desert.
Urrea has passionately covered the U.S.-Mexico Border with the eye of a reporter and pen of a poet, in such works as Across The Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border and By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border. In Devil’s Highway, “Urrea has crafted an impassioned and poetic exploration of the dark side of globalization, where commodities flow free and people die in the desert” (Chicago Tribune).
Professor of creative writing at UIC, Urrea will visit Truman along with other guests of the Journalism Program, to be announced. . . . .
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