Name: Francisco Stork Author Reading
Start: 2024-09-26T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Kretschmer Recital Hall Grand Rapids, M

Francisco Stork will read from his work on September 26, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in the Kretschmer Recital Hall in the Art & Music Center on the campus of Aquinas College. This event is free and open to the public. You can register for the event here: https://shorturl.at/XHsy5
Francisco X. Stork was born in Monterrey, Mexico. When he was six years old, Charles Stork, a retired American citizen, married Ruth Arguelles, a single mother, adopted Francisco and moved the three-member family to El Paso, Texas.
Francisco studied at Spring Hill College, a Jesuit College in Mobile Alabama, where he majored in English and Philosophy. He received an M.A. in Latin American Literature from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Francisco worked as an attorney for a state agency developing affordable housing before retiring in 2015. Eight of his eleven novels were written while working as a lawyer. Francisco lives outside of Boston with his wife Jill Syverson. He has two grown children and four grandchildren.
One Last Chance to Live, published September 2024, is Francisco’s latest novel. Other award-winning novels include Marcelo in the Real World, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award; The Memory of Light, recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award; Disappeared, which was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, Illegal, recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters Young Adult Award, On the Hook, recipient of the International Latino Book Award and I Am Not Alone, recipient of three starred reviews.