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Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American author and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, as well as a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. He is renowned for his works, including the Lannan Literary Award-winning The Devil’s Highway: A True Story and The Horse of Broken Angels. His debut book, Across the Wire, was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book and received the Christopher Award. In addition to his fiction and nonfiction, Urrea is a poet who earned a Western States Book Award in poetry for The Fever of Being. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California at San Diego and pursued graduate studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Currently, he resides in Naperville, IL, with his family and serves as a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Luis Alberto Urrea became a published novelist in 1993 with the novel Across the Wire. Below is a list of Luis Alberto Urrea's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Border Trilogy Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Across the Wire (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Nobody's Son (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of The Hummingbird's Daughter Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Queen of America (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Fever of Being (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ghost Sickness (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Vatos (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Six Kinds of Sky (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Water Museum (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Piedra (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration (With: Gregory McNamee) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Wandering Time (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Devil's Highway (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
In Search of Snow (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Into the Beautiful North (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The House of Broken Angels (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Good Night, Irene (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Amapola (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Phoenix Noir (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Lone Star Noir (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Alone Together (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Writer's Library (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Don’t Turn Out the Lights (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Growing Up Chicago (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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