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TITLE: Rene Saldana: Book Fest 05
SPEAKER: Rene Saldana
EVENT DATE: 09/24/2005
RUNNING TIME: 32 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Author Rene Saldana at the 2005 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Rene Saldana teaches English and writing at the university level in south Texas. He is the author of "The Jumping Tree" (2001) and "Finding Our Way: Stories" (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, 2003). More recently, several of his stories have appeared in anthologies such as "'Face Relations," "Guys Write for GUYS READ," "Every Man for Himself" and "Make Me Over," and in magazines such as Boy's Life and READ. Humanities Texas awarded Saldana a grant to help promote the use of culturally relevant literature in the south Texas middle schools.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2005