I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
My name is greg barrios. Im a former book editor of the san Antonio Express news. I worked for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently, i right for the los angeles review of books, and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of the book of poetry that deals with la causa. In fact, its called la causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former pulitzer prizewinning editor who spent 25, with the Los Angeles Times. The crusade of cesar chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic, charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of chavezs United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received a humanities endowment of fellowship to support the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam powel. [ applause ] thank you. Hi, miriam. Hi, greg. Thanks. Can you hear me . Im on. I want to
To this tape. So that was for me sums up a lot of the remarkable speaking about the man in writing the book. Did you research the role that san antonio played in the United Farmworkers Movement . I did interview the head of the texas farmworkers and there were some information about him in the book. I do deal in the book with the degree to which arizona and texas independent organizations formed and try to function. Chavez basically undercut them in a lot of ways by making sure they didnt get funding so there is a battle, theres a turf battle because he wanted to be the sole voice for farmworkers. Ultimately the idea was that it would be national union. That was the goal but they could never effectively run California Well enough to expand. And then the efforts in texas and arizona. The texas farmworkers had a Hunger Strike at the capital in 1978 and they also had a march to washington which i believe you are familiar with. At the time i remember speaking to antonio and he said they wa
Miriam pawel 11 is the former pulitzer prizewinning editor who has spent 25 years working at a news they and the Los Angeles Times. Her book the crusades of cesar chavez is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of the united farm workers movement. She recently received a National Endowment for the humanity fellowship to support her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] can you hear me . Okay. I want to ask you something i feel is really important. What brought you through the writing about cesar chavez. A lot of people in texas know who he is but then i was very surprised to learn that recently when the mexican filmmaker diego will do not was having the premier of his film on chavez, he took a walk, a stroll down cesar chavez boulevard, and asked if they knew who cesar chavez was. Most of them said they felt he was the boxer, the mexican b