Tucson Festival of Books

Renata Keller (She/her)



Rachel Gazes

Renata Keller is a historian of Latin America and the Cold War, and the author of the newly published "The Fate of the Americas," the first hemispheric history of the Cuban missile crisis. Her novel "Mexico's Cold War," won SECOLAS’s Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize and received multiple honorable mentions. A professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, she has published widely in academic journals as well as in The Washington Post and History Today. She co-edits InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century, a book series with UNC Press.

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Books:
The Fate of the Americas
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
History / Biography
University of North Carolina Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781469689432
336 pages

Mexico's Cold War
Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
History / Biography
Cambridge University Press
April 2017
ISBN 9781107438859
294 pages