The author Luis Alberto Urrea has written with authority about his Mexican roots. His best-known work, The Devil’s Highway, brought readers into that world. It’s filled with characters and scenes that ...

Luis Alberto Urrea lives in two worlds at once, but writes with no barriers. The award-winning author of novels like “Devil’s Highway” and “Hummingbird’s Daughter” was born to a Mexican father and ...

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American poet and writer who lives in the Chicago suburbs. His new novel, Queen of America, a follow up to 2005’s The Hummingbird’s Daughter, is based on the life of ...

Sometimes exciting things do happen on the internets, such as last night’s announcement that author and Mexican-American studies champion Luis Alberto Urrea returns to Tucson for a Day of the Dead ...

After 20 years, Luis Alberto Urrea’s heart sinks a little whenever sales of his most famous work, “Devil’s Highway,” increase. When they do, it typically means that something horrific has happened at ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Luis Alberto Urrea about his new novel, "Good Night, Irene." It's based on his own mother's experiences working for... Luis Alberto Urrea on his new novel 'Good Night, ...

Welcome to Southern Arizona’s very own piece of hell–the setting of Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway. We politely debate the chicken-or-the-egg question of Mexican immigration; meanwhile, ...

Bestselling author Luis Alberto Urrea is slated for a pair of area events this week in support of local nonprofit English in Action. First, he will be the features speaker at the an intimate ...

Luis Alberto Urrea says the border situation is “just so idiotic, toxic and racist. The new wall of razor wire in Nogales, for example.” Credit: Courtesy Luis Alberto Urrea moved to Tucson in 1994 at ...

Tucson favorite, author and champion Luis Alberto Urrea will deliver the keynote talk at the opening event of “The Documented Border” tonight, Wednesday, Oct. 8 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at UA Library’s ...