Sam Quinones
| Sam Quinones | |
|---|---|
| Born | Claremont, California |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Reporter for the Los Angeles Times |
| Notable work | Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration; True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic The Virgin of the American Dream |
Sam Quinones is an American journalist from Los Angeles, California. He is best known from his reporting in Mexico and on Mexicans in the United States. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2014.
Quinones grew up in Claremont, California. He graduated from Claremont High School in 1977 and then attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with B.A. degrees in Economics and American History.
He took his first journalism job in 1987 at the Orange County Register. The next year he moved to , where he spent four years working as a crime reporter for the . In 1992, he moved to Seattle, where he covered county government and politics for the Tacoma News-Tribune.
He left for Mexico in 1994 where he worked as a freelance reporter. Quinones returned to the United States in 2004 and now works for the Los Angeles Times, covering immigration-related stories and gangs.
He wrote in November 2012 about efforts to rework the Mexican Indian governance system known as usos y costumbres (uses and customs), which has become seen as disadvantaging migrants to the United States and pitting them against people who had remained in their villages.
In 2013, he took a leave of absence from the paper to work on a book about the opioid epidemic in America, focusing on abuse of prescription painkillers, primarily Oxycontin, and the spread of Mexican black-tar heroin, primarily by men from the town of Xalisco, Nayarit. The book will be published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Press in New York City.
In 2014, Quinones left the Los Angeles Times to "return to freelancing, writing for National Geographic, Pacific Standard Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Magazine, and several other publications."
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