{"id":26,"name":"Alejandro Morales","url":"","description":"Alejandro Morales, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in Montebello, California, and grew up in Simons, the company town of the Simons Brick Yard #3, bordering Montebello. He earned his B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Morales, currently is a professor in the Department of Chicano\/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. As a novelist and professor, Morales received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano\/Latino Literature in 2007 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  A documentary film, \u201cThe Brick People\u201d, inspired by his novel <i>The Brick People<\/i>, was released in 2012. The film chronicles the story and legacy of the Mexican immigrants who came to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century.  Morales's literary works include: <i>Caras viejas y vino nuevo<\/i> (1975); <i>La verdad sin voz<\/i> (1979); <i>Reto en el para\u00edso<\/i> (1983); <i>The Brick People<\/i> (1988); <i>The Rag Doll Plagues<\/i> (1992); <i>Barrio on the Edge<\/i> (1997); <i>Waiting to Happen<\/i> (2001); <i>Peque\u00f1a naci\u00f3n<\/i> (2005); <i>The Captain of All these Men of Death<\/i> (2008); <i>River of Angels<\/i> (2014) and <i>Little Nation and Other Stories<\/i> (2014).  In 2013 the Stanford University Libraries acquired Morales's collection of original manuscripts, articles and professional papers. At present, he is working on several projects at different stages of development including: \"A Rainbow of Colors,\" a biographical novel, a collection of speculative short stories and \"Zapote Tree,\" a collection of poems.","link":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu?author_name=moralesa1944","slug":"moralesa1944","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/983085b9ab253b56ff6458e4d579255c?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/983085b9ab253b56ff6458e4d579255c?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/983085b9ab253b56ff6458e4d579255c?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}