La Puente, CA--Please invite your students to join us in the New Manor on Wednesday, May 28 at 3:00 pm for the Author Visit of our guest speaker Héctor Tobar, an award-winning writer and journalist.
Hector Tobar is a writer, a novelist, a journalist, and a proud native of the city of Los Angeles. In 1992, he won a Pulizer Prize for his work covering the L.A. Riots for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked for twenty years and is currently a book critic.Previously, Hector Tobar was a Metro columnist, and the paper's bureau chief in Mexico City and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also worked for several years as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. Hector Tobar is currently also an adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount University and Pomona College. In 2006, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.
Hector Tobar has written four books, many essays and several hundred newspaper stories.
· Tobar is the author of The Tattooed Soldier, a novel set in the impoverished immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
· His non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States is a cross-country journey with stops in many of the new places where Latin American immigrants are settling.
· His third book, The Barbarian Nurseries, is a sweeping novel about class and ethnic conflict in modern Southern California: it was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2011 and won the 2012 California Book Award gold medal for fiction.
· When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Deep Down Dark, a master work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is a miraculous and emotionally textured account of the thirty-three men who came to think of the San José mine as a kind of coffin, as a "cave" inflicting constant and thundering aural torment, and as a church where they sought redemption through prayer while the world watched from above.
You may read about Hector Tobar on www.hectortobar.com/.
Hector Tobar is a writer, a novelist, a journalist, and a proud native of the city of Los Angeles. In 1992, he won a Pulizer Prize for his work covering the L.A. Riots for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked for twenty years and is currently a book critic.Previously, Hector Tobar was a Metro columnist, and the paper's bureau chief in Mexico City and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also worked for several years as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. Hector Tobar is currently also an adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount University and Pomona College. In 2006, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.
Hector Tobar has written four books, many essays and several hundred newspaper stories.
· Tobar is the author of The Tattooed Soldier, a novel set in the impoverished immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
· His non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States is a cross-country journey with stops in many of the new places where Latin American immigrants are settling.
· His third book, The Barbarian Nurseries, is a sweeping novel about class and ethnic conflict in modern Southern California: it was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2011 and won the 2012 California Book Award gold medal for fiction.
· When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Deep Down Dark, a master work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is a miraculous and emotionally textured account of the thirty-three men who came to think of the San José mine as a kind of coffin, as a "cave" inflicting constant and thundering aural torment, and as a church where they sought redemption through prayer while the world watched from above.
You may read about Hector Tobar on www.hectortobar.com/.