John Francisco Rechy was born on March 10,1931 and is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist.
11 Facts About John Rechy
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John Rechy's novels are written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matter.
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John Rechy worked as a prostitute into his forties while teaching at UCLA.
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John Rechy was the youngest of five children born to Guadalupe and Roberto Sixto Rechy.
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John Rechy was granted early release from the Army to enroll as a graduate student at Columbia University.
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John Rechy is considered one of Mexican American Literature's founding authors, and based his early writings on Mexican values and cultural problems that were available to him in Mexican films.
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John Rechy was cited by journalist Amy Harmon in a 2004 New York Times article that reported about a computer glitch on Amazon.
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John Rechy is the first novelist to receive PEN-USA-West's Lifetime Achievement Award ; he is the recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle and an NEA fellow.
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John Rechy is a faculty member at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
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John Rechy is the first recipient of ONE Magazine Culture Hero Award.
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Writers Michael Cunningham, Kate Braverman, Sandra Tsing Loh, and Gina Nahai were students of John Rechy's creative writing classes before becoming published authors.