One Houston One Book: FROM FARMWORKER TO ASTRONAUT: MY PATH TO THE STARS In-Person
Join The Mayor's Office for Adult Literacy (MOAL) for a "read-a-thon" model experience in celebration of One Houston, One Book - Diverse Stories for a Diverse City!
We invite you to read and discuss FROM FARMWORKER TO ASTRONAUT: MY PATH TO THE STARS with our special guest Nicolás Kanellos, founding publisher of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed Hispanic publishing house, Arte Público Press.
One Houston, One Book is a citywide initiative promoting "Diverse Stories for a Diverse City." In this book, Hernandez recollects his parallel journeys, juxtaposing memories of his mission to the space station and childhood aspirations to reach the stars.
MOAL is honored to partner with Arte Público Press for this event.
- Date:
- Thursday, August 31, 2023
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Location:
- Stanaker Neighborhood Library
- Age Group:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture Author Talks / Book Clubs One Houston One Book
ABOUT NICOLÁS KANELLOS
NICOLÁS KANELLOS is the Brown Foundation professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston and founder-director of Arte Público Press, the most accomplished publisher of US Hispanic literature.
He is a fellow of the Ford, Lilly and Gulbenkian Foundations and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1988 he was awarded the White House Hispanic Heritage Award and in 1989 the American Book Award in the Publisher/Editor category.
Author of numerous books on US Hispanic literature and theatre, Dr. Kanellos also directs the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, a national project to locate, study, index and commit to print and electronic media the whole of US Hispanic literature from colonial times to 1960.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOSÉ M. HERNÁNDEZ is the author of The Boy Who Touched the Stars / El niño que alcanzó las estrellas (Piñata Books, 2019), Reaching for the Stars (Hachette, 2012) and El cosechador de estrellas (Editorial Patria, 2012).
The founder of Reaching for the Stars Foundation dedicated to increasing the number of students studying STEM fields, he lives in Stockton, California, where he is president and CEO of an engineering firm.