Manuel Luis Martinez

Manuel Luis Martinez (June 26, 1966) is an American novelist and literary critic. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of four novels: ''Crossing'', (Bilingual Press, 1998), ''Drift'', (Picador USA, 2003), ''Day of the Dead'', (Floricanto Press, 2010) and ''Los Duros'' (Floricanto Press, 2014). His fiction deals primarily with the lives of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants, and explores the themes of migration, contemporary urban life, and the experience of dislocation. He is also the author of a book of literary criticism, ''Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera'', (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Provided by Wikipedia