Research Guides: ASU Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, 2014: Biographical Information / Interviews

Juan Felipe Herrera

"The son of migrant farm workers, Juan Felipe Herrera is known for chronicling the bittersweet lives of Mexican-Americans—their challenges, travails, joys, and contributions to American culture and the American scene....Herrera’s many awards include a PEN/Beyond Margin’s Award and National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Half of the World in Light, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Friends of Children and Literature (FOCAL) Award and Ezra Jack Keats Award for his bilingual memoir, Calling The Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas. He is poet laureate of California."

(From the Conference Web Site)

Biographies

Juan Felipe Herrera
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"Juan Felipe Herrera." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2016. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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Flores, Lauro H. "Juan Felipe Herrera." Chicano Writers: Second Series, edited by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Gale, 1992. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 122. Gale Literature Resource Center,
Juan Felipe Herrera (1948–)
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"Juan Felipe Herrera (1948-)." Something About the Author, edited by Alan Hedblad, vol. 127, Gale, 2002, pp. 67-71. Gale Literature: Something About the Author.