Tucson Festival of Books

Author, Write Thyself


Edward Burns, Leonard Pitts and Luis Alberto Urrea have walked very different paths in their lives, backstories they use to full effect in their books. In this session, we will learn more about them ... and how their own life experiences are infused into their work.


Panelists
Edward Burns

Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Edward Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including "Saving Private Ryan." In 2015, he published "Independent Ed," an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking....

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Leonard Pitts

In a career that now spans 48 years, Leonard Pitts Jr. has worked as a college professor, columnist, radio producer, lecturer and author. In short, he says, he's a writer.  The winner of a Pulitzer Prize in commentary while with the Miami Herald in 2004, Pitts became a syndicated columnist whose work often appeared in the Arizona Daily Star....

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Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea has never missed a Tucson Festival of Books, and will make it 16-for-16 this Spring. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea draws on his bi-cultural experiences to explore themes of love, loss and triumph....

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Books:
A Kid from Marlboro Road
A Novel
Edward Burns
Fiction / Literature
Seven Stories Press
August 2024
ISBN 9781644214077
224 pages
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54 Miles
A Novel
Leonard Pitts
Fiction / Literature
Agate Publishing, Incorporated
January 2024
ISBN 9781572843370
344 pages
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Good Night, Irene
A Novel
Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction / Literature
Little Brown
June 2024
ISBN 9780316265959
432 pages
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