Richard Rodriguez
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Rodriguez at the 2014 National Book Festival
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| Born |
July 31, 1944 San Francisco, California |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Christian Brothers High School (Sacramento, California) Sacred Heart School in Sacramento |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University, B.A. in English, 1967 Columbia University M.A. in philosophy, 1969 University of California, Berkeley, graduate study in English Renaissance literature 1969–72 Warburg Institute, London, dissertation research, 1972–73 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Agent | Georges Borchardt, Inc., 136 East 57th St., New York, NY 10022 |
| Known for | opposition to bilingual education and affirmative action |
| Notable work |
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (autobiography), David R. Godine (Boston, MA), 1982. Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (autobiography), Viking Penguin (New York, NY), 1992. Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Viking (New York, NY), 2002. |
| Home town | Sacramento, California |
| Television | PBS Newshour |
| Partner(s) | Jim |
| Parent(s) | Leopoldo Rodriguez Victoria Moran Rodriguez |
| Awards |
Fulbright Fellowship, 1972-73 -National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1976-77, and Frankel Medal -Commonwealth Club gold medal, 1982 -Christopher Award, 1982, for Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez -Anisfield-Wolf Award for Race Relations, 1982 -George Foster Peabody Award, 1997, for work on the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour -International Journalism Award, 1990, from World Affairs Council of California. -Emmy Award, 1992 |
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 "Richard Rodriguez — The Fabric of Our Identity", On Being
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"Richard Rodriguez—Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography." 7th Avenue Project, Oct. 13, 2013 |
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 Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez, writer, 2003 Melcher Book Award, WGBH News Forum May 14, 2003 |
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Video (and audio) conversation with Rodriguez and Kerry Howley on Bloggingheads.tv
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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 (1982), a narrative about his intellectual development.
He was born on July 31, 1944 into a Mexican immigrant family in San Francisco, California. Rodriguez spoke Spanish until he went to a Catholic school at 6. As a youth in Sacramento, California, he delivered newspapers and worked as a gardener. He graduated from Sacramento's Christian Brothers High School.
Rodriguez received a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from Columbia University, was a Ph.D. candidate in English Renaissance literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and attended the Warburg Institute in London on a Fulbright fellowship. A noted prose stylist, Rodriguez has worked as a teacher, international journalist, and educational consultant, and he has appeared regularly on the Public Broadcasting Service show, NewsHour. Rodriguez's visual essays, ''Richard Rodriguez Essays, on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" earned Rodriguez a Peabody Award in 1997. Rodriguez’s books include Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), a collection of autobiographical essays; Mexico's Children (1990); Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002); and Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013). Rodriguez's works have also been published in Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, and Time.
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