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Héctor Tobar

Author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

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Héctor Tobar was born in 1963 in Los Angeles, California. He received an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine and became a reporter with the Los Angeles Times in the 1980's. Along with a team of writers, he was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the L.A. riots in 1992. He has written both fiction and non-fiction works. His novels include The Tattooed Soldier and The Barbarian Nurseries, which won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. His non-fiction works include Translation Nation and Deep Down Dark. (Bowker Author Biography)
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The Best American Short Stories 2016 (Contributor) 237 copies, 6 reviews
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (Contributor) 151 copies, 4 reviews
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Contributor) 147 copies, 3 reviews
Los Angeles Noir (Contributor) 135 copies, 4 reviews
My California: Journeys By Great Writers (Contributor) 53 copies
The Best American Short Stories 2022 (Contributor) 34 copies, 2 reviews
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Mexico City, Mexico
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Irvine
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University of Oregon
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