Luis Rodriguez - Literacy Volunteers Book Festival

4^th ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL

Luis Rodriguez
Pacoima, CA

Against tremendous odds – including a troubled youth, alcohol and drug addictions, and poverty – Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the country with six nationally published books in memoir, children’s literature, and poetry. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis is also known for helping start a number of prominent organizations – such as Chicago’s Guild Complex and its publishing wing Tia Chucha Press, and Youth Struggling for Survival, a Chicago community group working with gang and nongang youth. He has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Parent’s Choice Book Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’Award, a Lannan Fellowship, among other awards. Luis grew up in South Central L.A. and the East L.A. area, and he recently returned to L.A. after spending fifteen years in Chicago.

Book List

Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (1994), $13.00, Paperback, Touchstone Books, ISBN: 0671882317 – available.

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: A Barrio Story/ No tiene que ser asi: una historia del barrio (1999), all ages, $15.95, Hardcover, Children’s Book Pr, ISBN: 0892391618 – available.

America Is Her Name (1998), ages 4-8, $15.95, Hardcover, Curbstone Pr, ISBN: 1880684403 – available.

LA Llaman America (1998), ages 4-8, $15.95, Hardcover, Curbstone Pr, ISBN: 1880684411 – available.

The Concrete River (1991), $11.95, Paperback, Curbstone Pr, ISBN: 0915306425 – available.

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