Piri Thomas is the author of the au...

Piri Thomas is the author of the autobiographical classic Down These Mean public ways first published in 1967. In Down These Mean roads Thomas chronicles his growing-up years in Spanish Harlem, years filled with the bittersweetness of life in a close-knit Puerto Rican enclave and the harsh realities of an urban ghetto. His memoir was common of the first written by dint of a Puerto Rican in the United States to be published by dint of a major press and acclaimed at the American mainstream. His other works include Saviors Savior, clinch My Hand (1972) and Seven drawn out Times (1974), as well as plays, short