Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction works have garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border region.
Life and work[edit]
Crosthwaite was born in 1962 in Tijuana, Mexico, where he spent most of his life before moving to San Diego, California, where he worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper as columnist and editor.
Currently, Crosthwaite lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
Works in Spanish[edit]
- Marcela y el rey al fin juntos (short stories, 1988)
- Mujeres con traje de baño caminan solitarias por las playas de su llanto (short stories, 1990)
- El gran preténder (novella, 1990)
- No quiero escribir no quiero (short stories, 1993)
- Lo que estará en mi corazón (non-fiction, 1994)
- La luna siempre será un amor difícil (novel, 1994)
- Estrella de la calle sexta (two novellas and a short story), 2000)
- Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (novel, 2001)
- Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (short stories, 2002)
- Aparta de mí este cáliz (novel, 2009)
- Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (revised edition, 2010)
- Tijuana: crimen y olvido (novel, 2010)
- Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (revised edition, 2011)
Works in English[edit]
- 1997: The moon will forever be a Distant Love (novel), translated by Debbie Nathan from: La luna siempre será un dificíl amor.
- Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from La Frontera (Co-Editor)