Domingo Martinez is an American author best known for his memoirs ''
The Boy Kings of Texas'' (published 2012) and ''
My Heart Is a Drunken Compass'' (published 2014). ''The Boy Kings of Texas'' was a non-fiction finalist for the 2012
National Book Award
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and a New York Times Best Seller. These books describe his difficult childhood in
Brownsville,
Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
, as well as his later struggles as an adult while living in Seattle, Washington. ''The Boy Kings of Texas'' is a Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award 2012, a Non-Fiction Finalist for The Washington State Book Awards, and was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize among other accolades.
His writing has appeared in ''The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The New Republic, Saveur Magazine'', ''Huisache'' Literary Magazine, ''Epiphany'' Literary Journal, and he is a regular contributor to ''This American Life'' and NPR's ''All Things Considered,'' and was the recipient of the Bernard De Voto Fellowship for Non-Fiction at Bread Loaf Writer’s Colony.
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Mexican-American culture in Texas
American memoirists
American male non-fiction writers
Writers from Texas
Hispanic and Latino American writers
People from Brownsville, Texas
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American writers of Mexican descent