CARLOS BULOSAN
Name: Carlos Bulosan
Born: November 24, 1913
Died: September 13, 1956
Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan, Philippines on November
24, 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956) was a Filipino
American novelist best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the
Heart.
He was active in labor politics along the Pacific coast of the United States and
edited the 1952 Yearbook for ILWU Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American
cannery union based in Seattle. There is some controversy surrounding the
accuracy of events recorded within America is in the Heart. He is celebrated for
giving a "Third World" perspective to the labor movement in America and for
telling the experience of Filipinos during the 30' and 40's.
In the 1970's, with a resurgence in Asian/Pacific Island activism, his writings
were discovered in a library in the University of Washington leading to
posthumous releases of several unfinished works.
His other novels include The Laughter of My Father and the posthumously
published The Cry and the Dedication which detailed the armed Huk Rebellion in
the Philippines.
As a progressive writer of labor struggles, he was blacklisted by the FBI due to
his labor organizing and socialist writings. Denied a means to provide for
himself his later years were of hardship and flight. He died in Seattle
suffering from an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia. He is buried at Queen Anne
Hill in Seattle.
Name: Carlos Bulosan
Born: November 24, 1913
Died: September 13, 1956
Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan, Philippines on November
24, 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956) was a Filipino
American novelist best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the
Heart.
He was active in labor politics along the Pacific coast of the United States and
edited the 1952 Yearbook for ILWU Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American
cannery union based in Seattle. There is some controversy surrounding the
accuracy of events recorded within America is in the Heart. He is celebrated for
giving a "Third World" perspective to the labor movement in America and for
telling the experience of Filipinos during the 30' and 40's.
In the 1970's, with a resurgence in Asian/Pacific Island activism, his writings
were discovered in a library in the University of Washington leading to
posthumous releases of several unfinished works.
His other novels include The Laughter of My Father and the posthumously
published The Cry and the Dedication which detailed the armed Huk Rebellion in
the Philippines.
As a progressive writer of labor struggles, he was blacklisted by the FBI due to
his labor organizing and socialist writings. Denied a means to provide for
himself his later years were of hardship and flight. He died in Seattle
suffering from an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia. He is buried at Queen Anne
Hill in Seattle.