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American writer (born 1944)
Richard Rodriguez (born July 31, 1944) is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Early life
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He was born on July 31, 1944, into a Mexican immigrant family in San Francisco, California where he spoke Spanish until age 6. As a youth in Sacramento, California , he delivered newspapers and worked as a gardener .
Education
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Rodriguez went to Catholic school starting from age 6 at Sacred Heart School in Sacramento and graduated from Christian Brothers High School .
He received a BA Stanford University in English in 1967, an MA Columbia University in 1969, and was a PhD candidate in English Renaissance literature at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1972. He also attended the Warburg Institute in London on a Fulbright fellowship in order to conduct research for his doctoral dissertation but ultimately did not complete the degree.[1]
Career
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Instead of pursuing a career in academia, Rodriguez suddenly decided to write freelance and take other temporary jobs. Rodriguez worked as a contributing editor to newspapers and magazines, including Harpers and the Los Angeles Times. [2] Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , was published in 1982. It was an account of his journey from being a "socially disadvantaged child" to becoming a fully assimilated American, from the Spanish-speaking world of his family to the wider, presumably freer, public world of English. However, the journey was not without costs: his American identity was achieved only after a painful separation from his past, his family, and his culture. "Americans like to talk about the importance of family values," said Rodriguez. "But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home."
While the book received widespread critical acclaim and won several literary awards, it also stirred resentment because of Rodriguez's strong stands against bilingual education and affirmative action . Some Mexican Americans called him pocho , Americanized Mexican, accusing him of betraying himself and his people. Others called him a "coconut," brown on the outside, but white on the inside. He calls himself "a comic victim of two cultures."[3]
A noted prose stylist, Rodriguez has worked as a teacher , international journalist , and educational consultant. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine Mother Jones Time [4] Public Broadcasting Service show, NewsHour [5] Richard Rodriguez Essays Peabody Award in 1997 .[6]
Rodriguez's most recent book, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013), explores the important symbolism of the desert in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. In an interview before the book came out, Rodriguez reported that he was "interested in the fact that three great monotheistic religions were experienced within this ecology."[7] Harper's Magazine (January 2008). In this essay, "The God of the Desert: Jerusalem and the Ecology of Monotheism,"[8]
Personal life
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Rodriguez is gay .[3] He came out in his book of essays Days of Obligation .[9]
Awards
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Bibliography
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Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez . 1982.Christopher Award
"The Castro" Harper's Magazine . 336 (2012): 35. January 2018.[14]
"Late Victorians" 1990. Harpers Magazine, October 1990
Mexico's Children (1990)
Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992) - nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002)
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
References
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^ Perivolaris, J. D. (2001). Rodríguez, Richard 1944- In M. Jolly (Ed.), Encyclopedia of life writing: autobiographical and biographical forms . London, UK: Routledge. Retrieved from https://manowar.tamucc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/routlifewrite/rodr%C3%ADguez_richard_1944/0?institutionId=2313
^ a b London, Scott (August 1997), "A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez" , The Sun , no. 260, Chapel Hill, North Carolina , retrieved 2012-01-06 Crossing Borders - An Interview With Richard Rodriguez .
^ Wyrick, Jean; Slaughter, Beverly J. (1999). The Rinehart Reader (third ed.). Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers . pp. 309, 586. ISBN 0-15-505512-7
^ "NewsHour Essayists" . PBS. Retrieved 16 September 2012 .
^ "Richard Rodriguez Essays (on American Life)" . The Peabody Awards . Retrieved 2024-03-06 .
^ Rodriguez, Richard, "The God of the Desert" in The Best American Essays 2009 , Ed. Mary Oliver (Mariner: Boston, 2009), 157
^ Rodriguez, Richard (2008-01-01). "The god of the desert" . Harper's Magazine . ISSN 0017-789X . Retrieved 2016-04-20 .
^ Rodriguez, Richard (October 19, 1998), "My heterosexual dilemma" , Salon.com , retrieved 2007-10-26
^ "Hunger of Memory" . Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards . Retrieved 2024-03-06 .
^ "Charles Frankel Prize" . The National Endowment for the Humanities . Retrieved 2024-03-06 .
^ "Richard Rodriguez Essays (on American Life)" . The Peabody Awards . Retrieved 2024-03-06 .
^ "About the Awards" . www.commonwealthclub.org . Retrieved 2024-03-06 .
^ Extract from Rodriguez, Richard (October 1990). "Late Victorians : San Francisco, AIDS, and the homosexual stereotype" Harper's Magazine .
Further reading
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America
The Americas
American Scholar
Booklist
Christian Science Monitor Monthly
Commentary
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Melus
The New York Times Book Review
Reason
Time
Tribune Books
The Washington Post Book World
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo . Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature . Palgrave, 2003.
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez, writer, 2003 Melcher Book Award, WGBH News Forum May 14, 2003
