Victor Villaseñor

Victor E. Villaseñor has had four national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He is the author of the highly acclaimed family trilogy of Rain of Gold, Thirteen Senses and Wild Steps of Heaven. The second trilogy of the next generation consists of Burro Genius, Crazy Loco Love, and Beyond Rain of Gold. His first book Macho! was compared to the best of John Steinbeck by the Los Angeles Times, and Villaseñor was later made the Founding Chair of the Steinbeck Institute in Salinas. His second book Jury: The People vs. Juan Corona was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review Section and called too good to be true. More recently he has written Lion Eyes, another book that's too good to be true, which is the true story of the youngest Christian minister ever licensed by the state of California and how his lion totem led him to Mexico where he helped return two million acres to the Native Americans that had been stolen from them. She, Too, Walks on Water and Revenge of a Catholic Schoolboy are part of the Snow Goose Global Thanksgiving series. Also, Victor Villaseñor has written several screenplays, including the award-winning The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, as well as beautifully illustrated bi-lingual children's books. Villaseñor continues to live on his parent's North County San Diego ranchito where he grew up, and where he, his family and friends, have been hosting Snow Goose Global Thanksgiving for over 20 years.