![]() In presenting the Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times lifetime achievement honor to John Rechy in 2018, critic and author Jonathan Kirsch noted: “Fifty-five years ago, Grove Press published John Rechy’s City of Night and American literature was forever changed. He is the first novelist to receive PEN‑Center‑USA’s Lifetime Achievement honor. In his review of the 50th Anniversary edition of the book, author Edmund White calls City of Night “a classic American novel.”Ī first generation Mexican‑American born in El Paso in 1931, Rechy is the author of seventeen books his work has been translated into approximately 20 languages. Rechy’s first novel, City of Night, was published in 1963 and has never gone out of print. ![]() The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University have acquired the complete archive of internationally acclaimed author John Rechy, praised as “one of the few original American writers of the last century,” by Gore Vidal, and as “one of Mexican‑American literature’s founding authors” by critic Héctor Calderón. ![]()
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