José Antonio Villarreal

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name = José Antonio Villarreal


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birthdate = 30 July1924
birthplace = Los Angeles, California
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occupation = novelist
nationality = USA
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movement = Chicano
notableworks = "Pocho" "The Fifth Horseman"
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José Antonio Villarreal (born 30 July1924, Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano novelist. He was born in 1924 in California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. [Villarreal,José Antonio. "About the Author" "Pocho." Doubleday, 1989. ] Like Juan Manuel Rubio in "Pocho," Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. [ [http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/jose.html Jose Antonio Villarreal ] ] He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950. ["Villarreal. "About the Author"]

Villarreal's novel "Pocho" (1959) is one of the first Chicano novels, and the first to gain widespread recognition.

Works

*Fiction
# "Some Turn to God," short story, Pegasus, 1947
# "A Pot of Pink Beans Boiling," short story, San Francisco Review, 1959
# "POCHO", a novel, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1959
# "POCHO", reprint, Anchor Books, New York 1971
# "The Conscripts," short story, Puerto del Sol, 1973
# "THE FIFTH HORSEMAN", a novel of the Mexican Revolution, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1974
# "THE FIFTH HORSEMAN", Second edition, The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, State University of N.Y., Binghamton, 1984
# "POCHO", New Edition, in Anchor Literary Series, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1984
# "CLEMENTE CHACON", novel, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, State University of N.Y., Binghampton,1984
# "TWO SKETCHES": "The Last Minstrel in California," and "The Laughter of My Father," "Iguana Dreams", ed. Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez, Harper-Collins, 1992
# "POCHO", Spanish Language edition, transl. Roberto Cantu, Anchor Books, N.Y. 1994

*Articles
# "The Fires of Revolution," Holiday Magazine, 1965
# "California: "The Mexican Heritage," Holiday Magazine, 1965
# "Mexican-Americans in Upheaval," West Magazine of the Los Angeles Times, September 1966
# "Mexican-Americans and the Leadership Crisis," West Magazine, September 1966
# "Olympics, 1968, "Mexico's Affair of Honor," Empire Magazine, Denver Post, April 1968

References

See also

*List of Mexican American writers