Richard Rodriguez is an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He appears regularly as an essayist on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and in 1997 he was given a George Foster Peabody Award for his work on the show. He is also the recipient of the Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council of California. He has published numerous articles in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and the New Republic, among others. Mr. Rodriguez is the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1983); Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992); and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003).