Robert Laxalt is a writer, a publisher, and a professor of English. He has held the Bancroft Chair of Western American Literature at Stanford University since 1987, becoming director of the Center for Western American Studies in 1991. He edited four books on Western American literature and seventeen books in English translation of Mexican and Spanish American literature, including The Last Generation: The Novels of Alejandro Lerdo de Tejada, winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Award for translation.
He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.Robert Laxalt
Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.Robert Laxalt
