Francisco Jiménez (writer)

Francisco Jiménez (born June 29, 1943 in Tlaquepaque, Mexico)^[1] is a Mexican-American writer, and a professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.^[2]

Selected works

• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
• La Mariposa (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
• The Christmas Gift/El regalo de navidad (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
• Breaking Through (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) (sequel to Circuit)
• Reaching Out (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) (second sequel)
• Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)
• Stories Never to be Forgotten, English translation of Historias para tener presente. Arizona State University: The Bilingual Press, 2015.
• Cajas de Cartón y Senderos Fronterizos. Secretaria de Cultura, Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, 2008.
• Cajas de Cartón: relatos de la vida peregina de un niño campesino. Boston: School Division, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
• Más allá de mí. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2009.
• Senderos fronterizos, Trade Division, Houghton Mifflin, Co., 2002.
• Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican Americans in Search of Justice and Power (The Struggle for Citizenship Rights in San Jose, California. AltaMira Pres (co-authored with Alma Garcia & Richard Garcia), 2007
• Casse di cartone: Racconti dalla vita di un piccolo contadino emigrante. Italian Translation of The Circuit, published by Achille, 2007. Translation by Victor B. Vari and Nello Proia
• Under that Sky, Japanese translation of Breaking Through published by Tokyo: Komine Shoten Ldt, 2005.
• Cajas de Cartón. Comunicación y Lenguaje III. Guatemala: Editorial Kamar, S.A., 2005.
• The other side of the Road. Japanese Translation of The Circuit, published by Tokyo: Komine Shoten Ldt, 2004.
• Little Immigrant's Sky. Chinese Translation of The Circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child, The Eastern Publishing Company Co., Ltd. 1999.
• Poverty and Social Justice: Critical Perspectives, Arizona State University: Bilingual Press, 1987.
• Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature, Vol. II. Eastern Michigan University: The Bilingual Press, 1982.
• Mosaico de la vida: prosa chicana, cubana y puertorriqueña. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
• Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature, Vol I.Eastern Michigan University: The Bilingual Press, 1980.
• The Identification and Analysis of Chicano Literature. New York: The Bilingual Press, 1979.
• Los episodios nacionales de Victoriano Salado Alvarez. Prologue, Andrés Iduarte. Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1974.

References

External links

• https://www.scu.edu/fjimenez/
• http://content.scu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/jimenez
• Biography at publisher Scholastic Books – with interview by Scholastic students (no date)
• Faculty-staff page at Santa Clara University
• Biography at The Latino Author
• Francisco Jiménez at Library of Congress Authorities, with 18 catalog records
• http://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/awards/steinbeck_award/jimenez/
• http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8251pn1/entire_text/
• https://magazine.scu.edu/spring2016/features.cfm?b=439&c=23782
• http://www.loc.gov/item/n81022362/francisco-jimenez-u-s-latino-1943/.
• http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/inspiring-memoirs-tell-journey-child-farm-worker-academic-n471196
• http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/times-past/article48181010.html
• http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/hold-migrant-worker-turns-ivy-league-scholar-blog-entry-1.2084451
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/dporterfield/2015/08/27/three-books-one-message-educating-for-the-american-future/
• http://santamariatimes.com/news/jimenez-elementary-santa-maria-s-newest-school-breaks-ground/article_07115a6e-aabb-5ea0-a4d7-9b1cff02005f.html#.VbqCvPg3I4c.email
• http://www.whalenfilms.com/unknownhero.html