Journalist Ron Taylor Tries His Hand at Fiction.
Reporter and novelist Ron Taylor. For the last 20 years, Taylor has reported on California agriculture, focusing on the life of farm laborers. Taylor was the first reporter to focus on Cesar Chavez, the migrant laborer who spearheaded the movement for a farm workers union with highly publicized work stoppages and boycotts of California produce. Taylor has written three books on the subject of farm labor: Sweatshops in the Sun, The Kid Business, and Chavez and the Farm Workers. His latest work, Long Road Home, is a novel that has been described by critics as a sequel to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the classic account of the vast migration to the California in the 30s. Taylor is now a reporter for The Los Angeles Times. (Interview by Sedge Thomson)
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