Rigoberto González

Butterfly Boy

Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the American Book Award

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9780299219048
• ISBN-10: 0299219046
• Artikelnr.: 33866562

Autorenporträt

Rigoberto González is the author of many award-winning books for adults and children, among them So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series; the novel Crossing Vines, named the ForeWord Fiction Book of the Year; and the teen novel The Mariposa Club , named to the American Library Association's Rainbow List. He is a contributing editor to the magazine Poets and Writers, on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and on the advisory circle of Con Tinta, a coalition of Chicano/Latino activist writers. He is associate professor of English at Rutgers University at Newark. Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle