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José Antonio Villarreal is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on July 30, 1924 in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his novel Pocho, which was published in 1959 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Villarreal attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1948. He then went on to earn a master's degree in English from the University of Southern California in 1950. Villarreal's writing career began in the 1950s, when he wrote short stories for various magazines. His first novel, Pocho, was published in 1959 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has since written several other novels, including The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), The Fifth Horseman (1988), and The Last of the Menu Girls (1996). Villarreal has also written several plays, including The Day They Shot Ruben (1962) and The Old Man and the Sea (1966). He has also written several screenplays, including The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) and The Milagro Beanfield War (1988). Villarreal has been honored with numerous awards, including the American Book Award in 1986 and the National Medal of Arts in 2000. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As of 2021, José Antonio Villarreal's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Novelist
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 30 July, 1924
Birthday 30 July
Birthplace Los Angeles, California
Date of death 13 January 2010 - California
Died Place California
Nationality United States

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1959

Villarreal's novel Pocho (1959) is one of the first Chicano novels, and the first to gain widespread recognition. Pocho has been called the "pivotal transitional link between 'Mexican American' and 'Chicano' literature", both because of its strengths as a novel and because of its use in the rediscovery and recuperation of Latino literature in the 1970s. The novel details the childhood of Richard Rubio, whose father Juan Manuel left Mexico in the post-Revolution exodus of 1910. As a first-generation American, Richard struggles with the conflicting values of his parents: his father's Mexican sense of honor, tradition, pride and masculinity and the more Americanized view of family and women's roles that his mother and especially his sisters adopt. Richard's father harbors a dream to return his family to Mexico, but his circumstances and choices keep him in the United States. Similarly, Richard does well in school and wants to go to college to become a writer, but he must become the man of the house after his father leaves the family; yet Richard himself leaves the family to join the Navy after Pearl Harbor. According to scholar Francisco A. Lomelí, the novel argues "that people of Mexican descent have a rightful place they can claim their own that is both Mexican and Anglo American, which Chicanos synthesize in varying degrees [and] accentuates, for the first time in a mainstream American literary scene, Hispanic characters as complex and multidimensional who, despite their individual flaws, possess depth and credibility".

1924

José Antonio Villarreal (30 July 1924 – 13 January 2010) was an American Chicano novelist. Villarreal was born in 1924 in Los Angeles, California, to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho, Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.

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