Sam Quinones

Sam Quinones is an American journalist. He was born in Claremont, California and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in economics and American history. Quinones moved to Mexico in 1994 and worked there as a freelance reporter from 1994 to 2004. From 2004 to 2014 he worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.  He has written for the Orange County Register, the Stockton Record in California, as well as the Tacoma News-Tribune. Quinones took a break from reporting in 2013 to write Dreamland. His other books are True Tales from Another Mexico (2001), Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream (2007), and The Virgin of the American Dream (2019), which is a book of photo journalism. In 2015, he won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Dreamland.