Gabriel A. Fraire is a Mexican-American. He has been a writer more than 50 years. He has authored five books, two plays, two movie scripts and has more than 20 years of newspaper experience.
He was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in the part of town known as “The Harbor.” It was the Mexican barrio that was adjacent to the steel mills. He grew up urban, ethnic and working class. All his family and friends were steel workers, Mill Rats.
Fraire received several scholarships and was the first person in all his extended family to attend college.
In 1975 with his wife, Karen, Fraire moved to California where he worked as a journalist for ten years.
In 1992 his brother John, who lived in New York City, approached him about collaborating on a play. In 1994 the Castillo Theatre Company of New York City produced the Fraire brother’s first play, Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa. In 1996 their second play Cesar Died Today was produced by New Latino Visions theater company in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2003, the Fraire brothers collaborated to write a short film Stories of the Season that was produced as part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Mexican American History Planetarium Presentation, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Fraire also has also authored five books: Latino Jesse, Fraire’s first book written in 1972-73, an autobiographical fiction novel about a Mexican-American who realizes he is neither Mexican nor American; Windsor the Birth of a City (1991) a non-fiction book about how unincorporated areas become cities in California; I Remember Healdsburg (1993), a collection of oral histories; Daddy I Need to Go Potty (1999), a humorous book about parenthood; and Mill Rats,(2012) a suspense novel about steel workers in 1978 involved with smuggling refugees out from behind the iron curtain.
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