--- title: Luis Alberto Urrea | TIME description: Urrea is the author of The Devil's Highway and The House of Broken Angels. His new novel is Good Night, Irene canonical: https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Luis Alberto Urrea ## Luis Alberto Urrea Urrea is the author of _The Devil's Highway_ and [_The House of Broken Angels_](https://www.amazon.com/House-Broken-Angels-Alberto-Urrea/dp/0316154881). His new novel is [Good Night, Irene](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/luis-alberto-urrea/good-night-irene/9780316265850/?lens=little-brown) ## Luis Alberto Urrea *  Jun 11, 2023 ### [Learning to Tell My Mother's War Story](https://time.com/6286184/luis-alberto-urrea-novel-ww2-story-mother/) Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea on tracing his mother's journey through Europe during World War 2 [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 2, 2019 ### [The Shame of the Border Crisis Will Never Leave Us](https://time.com/5642054/the-shame-of-the-border-crisis-will-never-leave-us/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/","name":"Luis Alberto Urrea"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/"},"name":"Luis Alberto Urrea","jobTitle":null,"description":"Urrea is the author of The Devil's Highway and The House of Broken Angels. His new novel is Good Night, Irene","url":"https://time.com/author/luis-alberto-urrea/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```