Arturo Islas

Arturo Islas (May 25, 1938 – February 15, 1991), a native of El Paso, Texas, was a professor of English and a novelist, writing about the experience of Chicano cultural duality.

He received three degrees from Stanford: a B.A. in 1960, a Masters in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1971, when he joined the Stanford faculty. Islas was the first Chicano in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in English. In 1976, he became the first Chicano faculty member to receive tenure at Stanford.^[1]

Islas died on February 15, 1991 from complications related to AIDS.

Works

• The Rain God (winner of the Border Regional Library Association's Southwest Book Award)
• Migrant Souls
• La Mollie and the King of Tears

Notes

1. ^ Dekker, George, Larry Friedlander, Diane Middlebrook and Nancy Packer. Memorial Resolution: Arturo Islas. Historical Society of Stanford University. 1991.

See also

Literature portal

• List of Mexican American writers

References

• Profile
• Dekker, George, Larry Friedlander, Diane Middlebrook and Nancy Packer. Memorial Resolution: Arturo Islas. Historical Society of Stanford University. 1991.

External links

• Arturo Islas Papers, 1956-1991(call number M0618; 20.5 linear ft.) are housed in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University Libraries

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