The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University has acquired the complete archive of internationally acclaimed author John Rechy, praised as "one of the few original American writers of the last century," by Gore Vidal, and as “one of Mexican-American literature’s founding authors," by critic Héctor Calderón.
Rechy’s first novel, "City of Night," was published in 1963 and has never gone out of print. In his review of the 50th Anniversary edition of the book, author Edmund White calls Rechy’s first novel, "a classic American novel."
A first generation Mexican-American born in El Paso in 1931, Rechy is the author of 17 books and his work has been translated into approximately 20 languages. He is the first novelist to receive PEN-Center-USA's Lifetime Achievement honor.
