Exploring queer themes and Chicano life, he became a bard of the U.S.-Mexico border

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, a writer who won the PEN/Faulkner Award, died at age 71. His young adult novel "Aristotle and Dante" was published in 2012 and became widely read. Sáenz wrote fiction and poetry that addressed life along the United States-Mexico border and included queer characters and themes.

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