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Richard Rodriguez

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Richard Rodriguez is an author and a journalist. He is most widely known for his autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity, and race: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992), and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). His most recent book isĀ Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013). Rodriguez worked as an essayist for nearly twenty years on the PBS NewsHour and has written documentaries for British and American television.

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