From Wikipedia: Rudolfo Anaya (born October 30, 1937) is an Mexican-American author. Best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya is considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature.[1] ~ Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya was born in the rural village of Pastura, New Mexico, to Martin and Rafaelita Anaya.[2] His father came from a family of cattle workers and sheepherders, and his mother's family were farmers.[3] Anaya was the fifth of their seven children together; he also had three half-siblings from his parents' previous marriages.[4] When Anaya was a small child, his family moved to Santa Rosa, New Mexico.[5] In 1952, they relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they lived in the Barelas neighborhood.[3] Spanish was spoken at home, and Anaya did not learn English until he started school.[6] When he was a teenager, Anaya suffered a diving accident while swimming with friends in an irrigation ditch and broke two vertebrae in his neck.[7] At first rendered paralyzed by the accident, he eventually made a substantial recovery, learning to walk again though never becoming entirely free of pain.[8] In 1956, Anaya graduated from an Albuquerque high school.[5] He then attended business school for two years, but he found it unfulfilling.[9] He transferred to the University of New Mexico, where he graduated in 1963 with a degree in English.[5] l Anaya worked as a public school teacher in Albuquerque from 1963 to 1970.[10] In 1966, he married Patricia Lawless, who would serve as his editor over the years.[11] She encouraged him to pursue his literary endeavors, and over a period of seven years, he completed his first novel, Bless Me, Ultima.[9] Dozens of publishing houses rejected the novel.[12] Finally, in 1972, a group of editors at El Grito, a Chicano quarterly, accepted the book.[13] Bless Me, Ultima went on to win the prestigious Premio Quinto Sol award and is now considered a classic Chicano work.[5]
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