Ilan Stavans
Author · 31 books
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. An award-winning writer and public television host, his books include Growing Up Latino and Spanglish. A native of Mexico City, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Series
Books
Sabor Judio
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
2024
Jewish Literature
A Very Short Introduction
2021
Popol Vuh
A Retelling
2020
Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
2018
The Return of Carvajal
A Mystery
2019
Bandido
Oscar ""zeta"" Acosta And The Chicano Experience
1995
The People's Tongue
Americans and the English Language
2023
The Seventh Heaven
Travels Through Jewish Latin America
2019
Latino USA
A Cartoon History
2000
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America
2020
Dictionary Days
A Defining Passion
2005
Spanglish
The Making of a New American Language
1975
God, A History of God
2014
On Borrowed Words
A Memoir of Language
2001
César Chávez
2009
The Wall
2018
El Iluminado
A Graphic Novel
2012
Resurrecting Hebrew
2008
Quixote
The Novel and the World
2015
Urban Muse, The
1997
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Early Years
2009
Return to Centro Histórico
A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots
2011
Creative Nonfiction #23
2004
Isaac Bashevis Singer
An Album
2004
The Hispanic Condition
The Power of a People
1995
On Self-Translation
Meditations on Language
2018
Mr. Spic Goes to Washington
2008
A Most Imperfect Union
A Contrarian History of the United States
2014
Reclaiming Travel
2015
The Novel that Invented Modernity
2014
The Mexican Dreidel
2023
