Alex sanchez author biography outline

Mexican American author

Alex Sanchez (born 1957) is a Mexican American author of award-winning novels for teens and adults.

His first novel, Rainbow Boys (2001), was selected by the American Library Association (ALA), as a Best Book for Young Adults.

Alex sanchez author biography outline

Subsequent books have won additional awards, including the Lambda Literary Award. Although Sanchez's novels are widely accepted in thousands of school and public libraries in America, they have faced a handful of challenges and efforts to ban them.

In Webster, New York, removal of Rainbow Boys from the 2006 summer reading list was met by a counter-protest from students, parents, librarians, and community members resulting in the book being placed on the 2007 summer reading list.

Life and career

Sanchez was born in 1957 in Mexico City, to parents of German and Cuban heritage; his family emigrated to the U.S. in 1962. He studied writing at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, under