Rivera was born in Texas in Crystal City, Texas, on December 22, 1935, to Mexican parents who immigrated to the United States and worked as migrant farm workers. Though he was raised migrating between agricultural locations in Texas and the Midwest, he graduated from high school and went on to college. Rivera earned his bachelor's degree in English from Southwest Texas State College in 1958. After finding it difficult to obtain work as a high school teacher because of his race, Rivera returned to Southwest Texas for his master's degree in education, graduating in 1964. In 1969, he earned his Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Oklahoma.
While working as a college instructor and publishing some stories and poems in the late 1960s, Rivera wrote his first book,… y no se.....
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