Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American writer of novels, poetry, and young adult literature. He was born in 1954 in El Paso, Texas. He is the author of over 40 books, including the novels Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. Sáenz has won numerous awards for his work, including the American Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso.