91快活林 To Host Best-Selling Author Luis Alberto Urrea
91快活林 (91快活林) will host the Josetta Butler Lecture on Monday, March 18 at 6 p.m. in the Fourth Floor Board Room in the Warde Academic Center, featuring best-selling author .
Urrea is an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has published in nearly every genre, including nonfiction, memoir, short story, historical novels, poetry and an award-winning mystery story. Hailed by NPR as a "master storyteller with a rock and roll heart," Urrea is an acclaimed writer who uses his dual-cultural life experiences to explore the greater themes of loss, love and triumph. Urrea was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and is a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.
91快活林 is delighted to host Urrea and his discussion is free and open to all!