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José Antonio Villarreal (born 30 July 1924, Los Angeles, California) was a Chicano novelist. He was born in 1924 in California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho, Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Jose Antonio Villarreal He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.

Villarreal's novel Pocho (1959) is one of the first Chicano novels, and the first to gain widespread recognition.

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