Bilingual Review, May 1st, 2000
Piri Thomas is the author of the autobiographical classic Down These Mean Streets, first published in 1967. In Down These Mean Streets, Thomas chronicles his growing-up years in Spanish Harlem, years filled with the bittersweetness of life in a close-knit Puerto Rican enclave and the harsh realities of an urban ghetto. His memoir was one of the first written by a Puerto Rican in the United States to be published by a major press and acclaimed by the American mainstream. His other works include Saviors Savior, Hold My Hand (1972) and Seven Long Times (1974), as well as plays, short stories, a...
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