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Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Critical Companion. By Margarite Fernandez Olmos. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Bibliography, index, xi + 162 pp. $29.95.
Rudolfo Anaya is one of today's leading Chicano writers. Since the release of Bless Me, Ultima, his groundbreaking first novel in 1972, Anaya has published eight additional novels, a collection of short stories, a travel journal, an epic poem, and several plays. Over the years his work has received widespread praise throughout the Latino literary community, earning him such laudatory epithets as "Godfather and guru of Chicano literature," "the most acclaimed and universal Chicano writer," and "our poet of the llano and the barrio."
Margarite Fernandez Olmos discusses how Anaya garnered this standing -...