Order of Luis Alberto Urrea Books

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American author and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, as well as a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. He is renowned for his works, including the Lannan Literary Award-winning The Devil’s Highway: A True Story and The Horse of Broken Angels. His debut book, Across the Wire, was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book and received the Christopher Award. In addition to his fiction and nonfiction, Urrea is a poet who earned a Western States Book Award in poetry for The Fever of Being. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California at San Diego and pursued graduate studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Currently, he resides in Naperville, IL, with his family and serves as a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.