A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton
The Devil's Highway,
Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels
The Hummingbird's Daughter,
Into the Beautiful North, and
Queen of America, as well as the story collection
The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.
He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.