Rolando Hinojosa-Smith four siblings, Hinojosa became a teacher; he has held several academic posts and has also been active in administration and consulting work. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and New Mexico Highlands University. Hinojosa received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969. Hinojosa has devoted most of his career as a writer to his "Klail City Death Trip Series," which comprises 15 volumes to-date, from "Estampas del Valle y otras obras" (1973) to "We Happy Few" (2006). He has completely populated a fictional county in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through this
Felipe Jesus Consalvos Creator, Healer, & Man: The Artwork of Felipe Jesus Consalvos." Catalogue essay, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, 2005. Greaves, Brendan. "Dream the Rest: On the Mystery and Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Cubamerican "Cigarmaker, Creator, Healer, & Man"," 2008. Smith, Roberta. "Red, White and Blue Americana Atop a Cultural Rainbow," "New York Times", January 20, 2006, p. E33. Felipe Jesus Consalvos Felipe Jesus Consalvos (1891 – c. 1960) was a Cuban-American cigar roller and artist, known for his posthumously-discovered body of art work based on the vernacular tradition of cigar band collage. Felipe Jesus Consalvos was born near Havana, Cuba in 1891