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Manuel A. Meléndez was born in Puerto Rico and came to the United States when he was ten years old and was raised in East Harlem, N.Y.
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His stories are gritty dramas of life that captures the flavor and the rawness of everyday people that he sees or meet on the streets of New York City.
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Birth Place
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Vega Baja, PR
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His first published novel Josefa's Curse was inspired by events that resulted in his own naming at birth and these events haunted him from childhood and all throughout the writing of the book. The author still lives in New York harvesting tales from the streets of the city.
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