Hector Tobar
Author · 7 books
Héctor Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Translation Nation and The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Books
The Tattooed Soldier
1998
Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020
The Barbarian Nurseries
2011
The Last Great Road Bum
2020
Our Migrant Souls
A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
2023
Translation Nation
Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
2005
Deep Down Dark
2014
