Authors / person-richard-rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

American journalist and essayist (born 1944).

Wikipedia

Portrait source · Wikimedia Commons

Recognized books

Wins

Lists

Index score

1983—2014

Recognition span

Author in the index

Richard Rodriguez has 4 books in the current index, recognized by prize programs between 1983 and 2014. The records span 4 leading prize families shown here.

Top recognition

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence1

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1

National Book Critics Circle Awards1

Pulitzer Prize1

Subject profile

Memoir & Autobiography2

History1

Society & Culture1

Indexed works

Books by Richard Rodriguez

4 books · sorted by recognition

Brown: The Last Discovery of AmericaSociety & Culture20024 pts Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican FatherMemoir & Autobiography19934 pts Hunger of MemoryHistory—4 pts Darling: A Spiritual AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography20142 pts

Year	Title	Subject	Score	Wins	Lists	Imprint
2002	Brown: The Last Discovery of America	Society & Culture	4	0	1	Viking
1993	Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	Viking
—	Hunger of Memory	History	4	1	1	Unknown
2014	Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography	Memoir & Autobiography	2	0	1	Penguin Publishing Group

Prize metrics come from Book Prize Index records. Biographical description and portrait metadata are sourced from the matched Wikidata and Wikimedia records; uncertain identity matches are omitted.

Read the methodology