Rudolfo Anaya

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Rodolfo Alfonso Anaya (born October 30, 1937, Pastura, New Mexico) is one of the best-known American authors to write in the Spanish language. He has written seven novels, the first and most famous of which is Bless Me, Ultima, written in 1972 and considered the best-known and most-respected example of contemporary Chicano fiction.

Anaya is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico.

He has written several children's stories and plays. Recent works include the Sonny Baca novel Jemez Spring in 2005, and Roadrunner's Dance, a children's book, in 2000.

Rudolfo Anaya married in 1974 and he and his wife have four children. Anaya currently lives in San Francisco, California.

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[edit] Fiction

Bless Me, Ultima (1972), ISBN 0-89229-002-1
Heart of Aztlan (1976), ISBN 0-915808-17-X
Tortuga (1979), ISBN 0-915808-34-X
Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest (1980), ISBN 0-89013-111-2
The Silence of Llano (1982), ISBN 0-89229-009-9
Cuentos Chicanos (1984), ISBN 0-8263-0771-X
The Legend of La Llorona (1984), ISBN 0-89229-015-3
The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas (1985), ISBN 0-934770-45-X
Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcóatl (1987), ISBN 0-8263-1001-X
Alburquerque (1992), ISBN 0-8263-1359-0
The Sonny Baca mysteries:
- Zia Summer (1995), ISBN 0-446-51843-3
- Rio Grande Fall (1996), ISBN 0-446-51844-1
- Shaman Winter (1999), ISBN 0-446-52374-7
- Jemez Spring (2005), ISBN 0-8263-3684-1
The Anaya Reader (1995), ISBN 0-446-67077-4
Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert (1996), ISBN 0-446-52024-1
Serafina's Stories (2004), ISBN 0-8263-3569-1
The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006), ISBN 0-8061-3738-X

[edit] Books for children

The Farolitos of Christmas: A New Mexico Christmas Story (1987), ISBN 0-937206-05-9
Maya's Children: The Story of La Llorana (1996), illustrated by Maria Baca, ISBN 0-7868-0152-2
Farolitos for Abuelo (1998), illustrated by Edward Gonzalez, ISBN 0-7868-0237-5
My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande (1999), illustrated by Amy Córdova, ISBN 0-688-15078-0
Roadrunner's Dance (2000), illustrated by David Diaz, ISBN 0-7868-0254-5
The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story (2004), illustrated by Amy Córdova, Spanish translation by Enrique Lamadrid, ISBN 0-8263-2847-4

[edit] Non-fiction

A Ceremony of Brotherhood, 1680-1980 (1981), edited with Simon J. Ortiz
Cuentos Chicanos: A Short Story Anthology (rev. ed. 1984), edited with Antonio Márquez, ISBN 0-8263-0772-8
A Chicano in China (1986), ISBN 0-8263-0888-0
Voices: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers (1987, 1988), editor, ISBN 0-8263-1040-0
Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (1989), edited with Francisco A. Lamelí, ISBN 0-929820-01-0
Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico (1989), editor, ISBN 0-938317-09-1
Flow of the River (2nd ed. 1992), ISBN 0-944725-00-7
Descansos: An Interrupted Journey (1995), with Denise Chávez and Juan Estevan Arellano, ISBN 0-929820-06-1
Chicano/a Studies: Writing into the Future (1999), edited with Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Elegy on the Death of César Chávez (2000), ISBN 0-938317-51-2