Luis Valdez is a Mexican-American writer. He is considered a great author because of his achievements. He began writing plays before graduating from college and started his own traveling theater company, “El Teatro Campesino”, after graduating. He soon got established with Centro Campesino Cultural in 1967 and settle into a full-time life of activism through both writing plays and hosting cultural events. Since then, he has written and produced many plays and films, becoming the "godfather of Chicano theater" along the way. (biography.com) Valdez was born in Delano, California, in June 1940. He had 10 brothers and sisters, and his parents were farm workers. He was raised in worker camps across California. He began to work in the fields at age six. Although his early schooling was interrupted constantly, Valdez was awarded with a scholarship to San Jose State College in 1960. On in his college career, he won a playwriting contest for his one-act play, The Theft. (encyclopedia.com) …show more content…
One important event that happened in the world when he was younger that marked him was that society was discriminating the Mexican-American people and he was part of that group. So when he got older and started writing all this films and plays, he wanted to defend his people with the purpose of ending the discrimination against Mexican-American people. Valdez got extremely involved in this and people love him for defending and supporting them that they named him the “godfather of chicano theater”.