Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist. His most recent New York Times best-selling nonfiction book, Deep Down Dark, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a 2014 Times Notable Book. He is the author of the novels The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier and was the former Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Argentina and Mexico. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.
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