BOOK TOUR DATES in 2010:

May 25-27 - Book Signing at Book Expo America - NYC Jacob Javits Center

June 12 - Printer's Row - Chicago, IL

June 17 - Reading at Firestorm Books and Cafe - Asheville, NC

June 27 – American Library Association – Washington, D.C.

August 2 - Slide Presentation and book signing at Word Power Books - Edinburgh, Scotland

Sept. 10-11 – Bookmarks Book Festival - Winston Salem, NC

Sept. 12 - Brooklyn Book Festival - Brooklyn, NY

Sept. 18 - 2pm -Slide Presentation and book signing at Borders Book Store - Burlington Mall, Waltham, MA

Sept. 28-30 - Laredo Public Library - Laredo, Texas

Oct. 2 - Slide Presentation and book signing at Food For Thought Books - Amherst, MA

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction for The Devil’s Highway. Inducted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis was born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother. Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush is a story taken from a collection of Luis's short stories entitled, Six Kinds of Sky.