Héctor delivered the Commencement Address at the 2008 Humanities Graduation at Cal State Northridge. Read his speech here.
Click here to read a recent speech by Héctor on the immigration debate and what it means for the Latino community
Hector's novel The Tattooed Soldier is published in paperback by Penguin Books and was a finalist for the PEN USA West Award for Fiction.
His most recent book is the non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, published by Riverhead Books.
Héctor is the Mexico City Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times. At this moment, he's wandering around Mexico or Central America.
Click here to read Hector's reporting from Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Iraq, Los Angeles and many other places around the world
Hector has appeared recently at events in Hamilton, Ohio, Austin, Tex., Durham, N.C., Santa Cruz, Calif. and many other places to speak about Latino immigration and the American experience, and about journalism and Latin American society.
Hector with professor Jose Luis Benavides on stage at CSUN in February.
You can write to Hector here.
If you've read one of his books, or his journalism, he'd love to hear from you.
