Rudolfo Anaya
Contributing Editor
Rudolfo Anaya lives and breathes the landscape of the Southwest. It is a powerful force, full of magic and myth, integral to his writings. Anaya, however, is a native Hispanic fascinated by cultural crossings unique to the Southwest, a combination of old Spain and New Spain, of Mexico with Mesoamerica and the anglicizing forces of the twentieth century. Rudolfo Anaya is widely acclaimed as the founder of modern Chicano literature. According to the New York Times, he is the most widely read author in Hispanic communities, and sales of his classic Bless Me, Ultima (1972) have surpassed 360,000, despite the fact that none of his books have been published originally by New York publishing houses. His works are standard texts in Chicano studies and literature courses around the world, and he has done more than perhaps any other single person to promote publication of books by Hispanic authors in the U.S. With the publication of his novel, Albuquerque (1992), Newsweek proclaimed him a front-runner in "what is better called not the new multicultural writing, but the new American writing." His most recent volume, published in 1995, is Zia Summer.
Selected Bibliography:
Shaman Winter
Rio Grande Fall
Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert
Rio Grande Fall
Zia Summer
Alburquerque
Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl
A Chicano in China
The Legend of La Llorona
Bless Me, Ultima
