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Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American Book Award-winning author (for Calendar of Dust) of poetry and prose for adults and teens. His first novel for young adults, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel for teens, He Forgot to Say Goodbye won the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award and the Southwest Books Award (Border Regional Librarians Association) and was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in poetry, Sáenz chairs the creative writing department at University of Texas, El Paso.

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He Forgot to Say Goodbye is now available in Trade Paperback
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye will be released on March 09, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye has won an award
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye has won an award
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye has won an award
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye has won an award
Mar 10, 2009
He Forgot to Say Goodbye will be released on June 17, 2008 in Hardcover
Jun 17, 2008
He Forgot to Say Goodbye is now available in Hardcover
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye will be released on June 17, 2008 in eBook
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He Forgot to Say Goodbye is now available in eBook
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Poten & Partners, December 2, 2011
...George Washington reveals him to be a man of passion. POETRY "The Books of What Remains," by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Copper Canyon): This poet of the Southwest probes, in the harshest possible terms, how the border has become a landscape of death and...
seattlepi.com, July 27, 2011
...can’t wait to read. Other evening readings included works by Pam Houston, Carl Phillips, Sam Ligon, and Benjamin Alire Saenz — and a big highlight was Friday’s reading with Wendy Call as she read from her hot-off-the-presses book No Word for...
Wachovia, April 9, 2011
...N.M. April 09--LAS CRUCES -- The NMSU Library is sponsoring a children's program with award-winning author Benjamin Alire Saenz at 10:30 a.m. April 30 at Branigan Library. The program is free and open to the public. Saenz, the author of the bilingual...
Las Cruces Sun-News, April 9, 2011
...LAS CRUCES - The NMSU Library is sponsoring a children's program with award-winning author Benjamin Alire Saenz at 10:30 a.m. April 30 at Branigan Library. The program is free and open to the public. Saenz, the author of the bilingual children's book...
Monroe Patch, December 12, 2011
...Tpke, Monroe, CT When: January 11, 2012 Time: 4:00 pm Join us this afternoon as we discuss Benjamin Alire Saenz’s “Last Night I Sang to the Monster” about a teen recovering from alcoholism. This book has mature subject matter. For more...
MySanAntonio, December 5, 2011
...such companies as the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo and New National Theatre, Tokyo. Benjamin Alire Saenz, literary arts: The novelist and poet has won a slew of awards for his work, including an American Book Award for...
Poten & Partners, December 2, 2011
...George Washington reveals him to be a man of passion. POETRY "The Books of What Remains," by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Copper Canyon): This poet of the Southwest probes, in the harshest possible terms, how the border has become a landscape of death and...
TheHappyNappyBookseller, June 24, 2011
...Hoochie Prom Queen by Nico Medina The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz The God Box by Alex Sanchez The It Chicks by Tia Williams Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger After Tupac and D...
TheHappyNappyBookseller, May 12, 2011
...loud funny and filled me with so much joy. 2010 Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz - Again nothing but love. This author is pretty sick with a pen. Once again Alire Saenz simply put is all into it. Looking forward to seeing which...