UPCOMING BOOK TOUR DATES in 2010:

May 25-27 - Book Expo America at the NYC Jacob Javits Center

June 12-13 - Printer's Row - Chicago, IL

June 27 – American Library Association – Washington, D.C.

Sept. 11- 12 – Brooklyn Book Fair - Brooklyn, NY

Sept. 28-30 - Laredo, Texas

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction for The Devil’s Highway. Inducted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis was born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother. Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush is a story taken from a collection of Luis's short stories entitled, Six Kinds of Sky.