Luis Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and the best-selling author of 19 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He's been honored with a Pushcard Prize, an American Academy of Arts & Letters award and an Edgar Award. His most recent book is The House of Broken Angels, a NYTimes Notable Book of the year, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Aware. His novel Into the Beautiful North is a selection of the NEA Big Reads program. Urrea's...See more
Luis Alberto Urrea is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and the best-selling author of 19 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He's been honored with a Pushcard Prize, an American Academy of Arts & Letters award and an Edgar Award. His most recent book is The House of Broken Angels, a NYTimes Notable Book of the year, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Aware. His novel Into the Beautiful North is a selection of the NEA Big Reads program. Urrea's novel based on his mother's WWII experiences, Good Night, Irene, will be published in May 2023 by Little, Brown. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. See less
