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José Antonio Villarreal (born 30 July1924, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
) is a Chicano
Chicano

Chicano is a word for a Mexican American . The terms Chicano and Chicana were originally used by and regarding U.S. citizens of Mexican descent....
 novelist. He was born in 1924 in California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho, Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.

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

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  • "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., Binghamton,1984
  • TWO SKETCHES: "The Last Minstrel in California," and "The Laughter of My Father," Iguana Dreams, ed.






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    José Antonio Villarreal (born 30 July1924, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
    ) is a Chicano
    Chicano

    Chicano is a word for a Mexican American . The terms Chicano and Chicana were originally used by and regarding U.S. citizens of Mexican descent....
     novelist. He was born in 1924 in California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho, Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.

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

    Works

    • Fiction
    1. "Some Turn to God," short story, Pegasus, 1947
    2. "A Pot of Pink Beans Boiling," short story, San Francisco Review, 1959
    3. POCHO, a novel, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1959
    4. POCHO, reprint, Anchor Books, New York 1971
    5. "The Conscripts," short story, Puerto del Sol, 1973
    6. THE FIFTH HORSEMAN, a novel of the Mexican Revolution, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1974
    7. THE FIFTH HORSEMAN, Second edition, The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, State University of N.Y., Binghamton, 1984
    8. POCHO, New Edition, in Anchor Literary Series, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1984
    9. CLEMENTE CHACON, novel, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, State University of N.Y., Binghamton,1984
    10. TWO SKETCHES: "The Last Minstrel in California," and "The Laughter of My Father," Iguana Dreams, ed. Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez
      Virgil Suárez

      Virgil Su?rez is a Cuban American poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for such novels as Latin Jazz and Going Under....
      , Harper-Collins, 1992
    11. POCHO, Spanish Language edition, transl. Roberto Cantu, Anchor Books, N.Y. 1994


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


    See also

    • List of Mexican American writers


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