Luis Alberto Urrea
2005 Pulitizer Prize finalist
Magical Realism, Immigration, and Life on the Border
Friday, November 16 at 7 p.m.
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 Eask Kirkwood Ave.
This is hosted by The Friends of the Library as a fundraiser for Monroe County Public Library .
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 day of performance.
$65 for premium seating at the event, a signed bookplate and elegant champagne, hor d'oueves, and dessert after hours reception to meet the author in the Monroe County Public Library Atrium.
Tickets are available in the Sunrise Box Office or The Friends of the Library Bookstore.
INFO: 349-3050 ext. 1080.
www.mclp.info
www.luisurrea.com
* 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist and American Book Award winner for The
Devil's Highway, a nonfiction account of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert
* Christopher Award winner for his first book, Across the Wire, also
named a New York Times Notable Book
* Inductee into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame
* First finalist to be chosen for the Kiriyama Prize for both nonfiction (2005) and for fiction (2006), winning the fiction award in (2006) for The Hummingbird's Daughter, an epic novel 20 years in the making: the fictionalized biography of Urrea's own great-aunt set during Mexico's Civil War
