FORA.tv Speaker - Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of 11 books, including the national bestsellers, The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist for The Devil's Highway, Urrea also won the 2006 Kiriyama Prize for fiction for The Hummingbird's Daughter. A member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame, Urrea has also earned a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, and a Western States Book Award.