Luis Alberto Urrea is a writer and a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Urrea, a native of Tijuana, was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (Little, Brown & Co., 2004). The book chronicles the attempt 26 Mexican men made in May 2001 to cross the desert into southern Arizona. Only 12 survived.
| Website | http://www.luisurrea.com/ |
| Email address | luis@luisurrea.com |
| Phone number | 212-364-1292 |
| Categories | Arts, Church & state, education, Foreign policy, Government & politics, Media, Migration, National security, Race & ethnicity, Society & culture |
| Locations | Illinois, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Interfaith |
| Languages | English |