Biography contemporary writers alfredo vea jr

American novelist

Alfredo Véa Jr. (born 28 June 1950)^[1] is a Mexican-Yaqui-Filipino-American^[1]lawyer and novelist who has written four novels: La Maravilla (1993), The Silver Cloud Café (1996), Gods Go Begging (1999), which the Los Angeles Times named one of the best books of 1999,^[2] and The Mexican Flyboy, which won a 2017 American Book Award.

Biography

Alfredo Véa was born in the desert near Phoenix, Arizona "around 1950; nobody knows"^[3] to Lorenza Carvajal, a thirteen year old of Yaqui and Spanish ancestry. Although La Maravilla copyright page lists his birth year as 1952, he later designated June 28, 1950 as the date of his birth.^[3] He grew up in the "Buckeye Road" barrio near Phoenix, where he lived with his Mexican grandparents, Manuel Carvajal and Josephina Castillo de Carvajal, who passed on to him their Spanish and Yaqui heritages.

Thus, Véa's small-town environment was multicultur