Richard Rodriguez is a contributing editor at New America Media in San Francisco and a regular contributor to The News Hour on PBS. He writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines, both in the United States and in England. He has also written an autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity and race: Hunger of Memory (1982) Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, (1992) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). He is currently working on a book concerned with the ecology of the desert and monotheism.