Ron Arias: Notebooks a family obsession

As near as I can tell, my writing habit began more than a hundred years ago on a cattle ranch in northern Mexico. That was when my grandmother, at seven years of age, wrote three words in a little notebook her mother, Cristina Terrazas, had given her: hoy murio mama. No capital H, no accent marks, no other details–little Julia Terrazas simply wanted to record that her mother had just died.

I was googling stuff on THE ROAD TO TAMAZUNCHALE when I discovered Moleskinerie.com, where Ron Arias published this short essay on how he came to writing (2005). Read the rest HERE.

Ron Arias (born November 20, 1941) is a highly regarded Chicano writer whose novel The Road to Tamazunchale has been called “one of the founding texts in Contemporary Chicano/a Literature.” He is also a retired senior writer and correspondent for People magazine.

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