Principally because of his first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), Rudolfo Anaya is considered a major contemporary Mexican-American writer. The book, one of the few Chicano literary best-sellers, appears on high school and college curricula, holds an...

Rudolfo A. Anaya is known as a novelist, but his work includes essays, short stories, poetry, and drama. Flourishing as a writer during the 1970s, Anaya has written novels that represent the American Southwest and its historical conflicts, often with...

Rudolfo A. Anaya, author of fiction and nonfiction books, plays, articles, children's books, and short-story collections, is often referred to as the "Godfather of the Chicano Literary Movement." His best-known work is the novel Bless Me, Ultima...

The sixteen-year-old boy laughed with his friends as he approached an irrigation-ditch pool for a swim. But as Rudolfo Anaya dove into the water, "the world disappeared." When he finally came to, he could not move. "I felt a panic I had never felt...