A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway, now in its 30th paperback printing, Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of numerous other works of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The House of Broken Angels, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among many other honors, he lives outside Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago. His new novel is Good Night, Irene.
Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea's new novel is an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. Alice Winn has written a haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I. Moderated by OPB's Geoff Norcross.
