and the earth did not part may appear to some at first reading to be a collection of loosely connected short stories and sketches. In 1978 he married Concepción Garza, and in 1979 he became chancellor of the University of California at Riverside. and the earth did not part was first published in 1971, in an edition that printed both the original Spanish and its translation into English it won the Quinto Sol National Chicano Literary Award. He received a bachelor’s degree in education in 1958 and a master’s degree in educational administration in 1964 from Southwest Texas State University he subsequently studied at the University of Oklahoma, from which he earned a doctorate in Romance languages and literature in 1969. īorn on December 22, 1935, the son of migrant workers Florencio and Josefa Hernández Rivera, Tomás Rivera himself did migrant work until 1957. and the earth did not part, that his literary reputation rests. Though he was also highly regarded as a college administrator and educator–becoming, in 1979, the first Chicano to be named a chancellor in the University of California system–and though he published a small collection of poems ( Always, and Other Poems) in 1973 and scattered poems, essays, and short stories afterward, it is on his striking episodic novel. Rarely has a literary reputation been so securely based on one slim novel as that of Tomás Rivera (rih-VAYR-ah). Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works, 1991 Biography The Harvest: Short Stories, 1989 (bilingual)

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