[Peace] Luis Urrea will be speaking April 18 at Champaign LIbrary

[Karen Medina]

Peace,

I just noticed that Luis Urrea will be in town again. He wrote the
book "The Devil's Highway" about the group of people that died
crossing the desert to get into the United States. He spoke at the
YMCA and then at Pages For All Ages when we invited him.

Anyway, he is a good speaker.

The Champaign Public Library has invited him as part of the Big Read program.

Luis Alberto Urrea
April 18, 2010
2pm
Champaign Public Library, Room A and B
200 W. Green St., Champaign, Illinois 61820

Description from the library's event pages:
 Join us for the keynote event in this year's Big Read.  A Pulitzer
Prize nonfiction finalist for The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea
is known for creating works of fiction and nonfiction that stir
together magic with history, combining real emotional content with
realism. As a speaker, he is funny and irreverent yet deeply moving,
sharing insights into his own life, his research, and his remarkable
writing.
Born on a dirt street in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American
mother, Urrea uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore themes
of love, loss, and triumph. His acclaimed historical novel, The
Hummingbird's Daughter, tells the story of the woman known as the
Mexican Joan of Arc. His latest book, Into the Beautiful North, is a
humorous and uplifting tale of a young girl's unforgettable journey to
North America. Urrea teaches creative writing at UIC and is a member
of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.

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