This motivated Urrea to write an essay that was published in 1980, as way of processing his grief. His father was murdered on a trip to his home village in 1977, seeking money there to spend on his son's college education. Urrea completed his graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He attended the University of California, San Diego, earning an undergraduate degree in writing in 1977. His mother encouraged him to write and encouraged him to attend college and to apply for grants that would help pay for his college education.
The family moved again in 1965 to Clairemont, a newer subdivision in the city of San Diego. The family moved to Logan Heights in South San Diego, because he had tuberculosis and they felt he would recover in the US. He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and listed as an American born abroad. Luis Urrea is the son of Alberto Urrea Murray, of Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico and Phyllis Dashiell, born in Staten Island, New York. Luis Alberto Urrea (born Augin Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, The Hummingbird's Daughter University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado at Boulder
Luis Alberto Urrea at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
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