ANGELS & DEVILS: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea

1670 East Drachman Street,Tucson AZ 85721

14 October, 2021

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Join us for Tucson Humanities Festival 2021featuring ANGELS & DEVILS: An Evening with Luis Alberto Luis Alberto Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 18 books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. He’s a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim Fellow, has won an Edgar, an American Book Award and is an inaugural fellow for the Borchard Foundation. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Urrea has lived and written in Tucson and received the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Founders Award. His most recent book is The House of Broken Angels, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and NY Times Notable Book. This event is the first in the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s 2021-22 Reading & Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, established to create a community of literary artists from across the Americas to foster meaningful connections between people, culture, and the natural world. LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE at humanitiesfestival.arizona.edu/live NOTE: Seating will be opened to a stand-by line 10 minutes prior to the event, and advance registrations will be forfeited at that time. A common thread linking the many departments and programs in the College of Humanities is the contributions they make to our understanding of human societies. By developing innovative strategies for teaching that employ digital-age as well as traditional technologies, and by supporting cutting-edge research, the College offers a context and a location for the vibrant conversations that create intellectual community. In this way, COH continues to contribute economically, culturally, and socially to Arizona, the nation, and to international transcultural understanding.