About the Author

Richard Rodriguezhas authored a "trilogy" on American public life and his private life-Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation,andBrown-concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America.He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print.Most recently he wroteDarling,a meditation on the Abrahamicreligions after 9/11.

Reviews

“Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography.”—Boston Globe

“Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph.”—New York Times Book Review