Hector Tobar

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller, Deep Down Dark , as well as The Barbarian Nurseries , Translation Nation , and The Tattooed Soldier . Héctor is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker , The Los Angeles Times and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in...See more

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller, Deep Down Dark , as well as The Barbarian Nurseries , Translation Nation , and The Tattooed Soldier . Héctor is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker , The Los Angeles Times and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories , L.A. Noir , Zyzzyva , and Slate . The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. See less