Neighbor News
Author Francisco Jimenez to Speak in Livermore
Talk & book signing open to public, co-sponsored by Livermore Public Library & Junction Avenue School
Author Francisco Jiménez will be at the Junction Avenue K-8 School at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, in a free event open to the public & co-presented by the Livermore Public LIbrary.
Dr. Jiménez emigrated with his family from Tlaquepaque, Mexico to California and as a child worked alongside his parents in the fields. He received his B.A. from Santa Clara University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Dr. Jiménez’s autobiographical books The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, Breaking Through, Reaching Out, La Mariposa, and The Christmas Gift, have won several national literary awards. His stories have been published in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Italian and Spanish, and reprinted in over 100 textbooks and anthologies of literature.
This World Culture Connection celebration of Latin America event is generously sponsored by The Friends of the Livermore Library. For the full list of events, & more details, visit the library at livermorelibrary.net, or phone 925-373-5504.
