Mark Arax's "The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published October 20, 2021 at 12:57 PM PDT

Local award-winning author Mark Arax is the author of this week's story on Valley Writers Read.

"The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman" is about a family of Triqui Indians from Oaxaca, Mexico, who are forced to deal with the death of their father and husband, Hilario.

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Franz Weinschenk

Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.

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