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 Last Great Road Bum, The Barbarian Nurseries,
Translation Nation, and
The Tattooed Soldier. He is also a contributing writer for the
New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has 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, Tobar is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family.
