MANSFIELD LECTURE: LUIS ALBERTO URREA, AUTHOR OF INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH

Sponsored by the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation
Q&A will follow the lecture.  

Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North is Roosevelt’s One Book/One University First-Year Read. The novel follows Nayeli, a 19-year-old restaurant worker, as she goes on a journey “into the north” to repopulate and protect her Mexican village after many of the townsmen — including her father — have migrated to the United States.

A best-selling author of 17 books,  Luis Alberto Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. In 2019, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction award. In 2016, Urrea became a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist; and in 2005, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.

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