We consulted many critical works to create this collection, including the following bibliographies:

• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Literature, first series, Francisco A. Lomeli, Carl R. Shirley and Mary Bruccoli. Gale Group, 1989.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Literature, second series, Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley. Gale Group, 1992.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Literature, third series, Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley. Gale Group, 1999.
• U.S. Latino literature: an essay and annotated bibliography, Marc Zimmerman. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1992.
• Latinos in English: a selected bibliography of Latino fiction writers of the United States, Harold Augenbraum, Hilda Mundo-Lopez, Ilan Stavans, Terry Quinn. New York: Mercantile Library of New York, 1992.
• A Current Bibliography of Chicano Literature: Creative and Critical Writings Through 1984, Roberto G. Trujillo and Andres Rodriguez. Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1984.
• Chicano perspectives in literature: a critical and annotated bibliography, Francisco A. Lomelí and Donaldo W. Urioste. Albuquerque: Pajarito Publications, 1976.

A scholarly editorial board assisted in the selection of the content:

		Jorge A. Huerta, Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego, is a leading authority on contemporary Chicano and US Latino Theatre as well as a professional director. He has published a number of articles; written and produced to plays; edited three anthologies of plays; and published two landmark books: Chicano Theatre: Themes and Forms (Bilingual Press, 1982) and Chicano Drama: Performance, Society, and Myth (Cambridge 2000). He is a founding member of TENAZ, Teatro Nacional de Aztlan, he the founder of Teatro de la Esperanza, one of the first major Chicano theatres. Dr. Huerta has lectured and conducted workshops on Chicano theatre throughout the United States, Latin America and Western Europe. He directed more than 60 plays for professional and university theatres. He was the first Chicano to earn a Ph.D. in Theater, 1974, from University of California Santa Barbara.
		Virgil Suarez, Professor of creative writing at Florida State University, is the author of four novels, three collections of poetry, and one collection of short fiction. He also edited two landmark anthologies of Latino literature: Iguana Dreams (1992) and Little Havana Blues (1996). A noted poet, his work has been included in hundreds of magazines, journals, and anthologies. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962 and moved to the United States in 1974. He holds degrees from California State University - Long Beach and Louisiana State University.
		Judith Ortiz Cofer is the Franklin Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the 1998 recipient of the Christ-Janner Award in Creative Research from the University of Georgia. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded her a residency at the Bellagio, Italy Conference Center in 1999. During spring 2001, she was Vanderbilt University’s Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer in Residence. Judith Ortiz Cofer has written extensively on the experience of being a Puerto Rican in the United States. She is the author of Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (a collection of essays), The Line of the Sun (a novel), and several other titles, which have been honored with awards including the first Pura Belpre Award, cosponsored by REFORMA and the Association for Library Services to Children.
		Yolanda Retter Vargas (PhD, University of New Mexico) is the Chicano Studies Librarian at UCLA, where she manages a bilingual special collection focusing on the history and culture of Chicanos and Mexico. Dr. Retter has vast experience in Information Management and collection development. Her fields of expertise are history, biography, psychology, women's studies, ethnic studies and lesbian/gay studies. She has also created and maintains several web pages including “The Lesbian History Project.” Her publications include several books and numerous articles in the field of lesbian history in the United States. She is a co-editor of Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: A Documentary History (Greenwood Press, 2003).

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This release includes 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry.

It is our goal to have no errors in this database. Below are known errors in this release of the database which will be rectified in the next release.

• The title of Erasmo Vando's short fiction work "Haz Bien" should be "Haz Biem."



• Update on biographical details for Fernando Alegria, died October 29, 2005 in Walnut Creek, California. He was 87.

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