up having a lasting impact on a generation of Latino writers. Following the book's success, Anaya was invited to join the English faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1975, where he taught until his retirement in 1993. Anaya traveled extensively through both China in 1984, and South America following his retirement. His experiences in China are chronicled in his travel journal, A Chicano in China, published in 1986. During the 1990s, Anaya found an even wider audience as mainstream publishing house Warner books signed him on for a six-book deal beginning with the novel Alburquerque. He subsequently created the Sonny Baca mystery series which included Zia Summer, Rio Grande Fall, Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert, and Shaman Winter. The Anaya Reader, a collection of his works, followed. Bless Me, Ultima was released as a feature film on February 22, 2013. It was subsequently adapted into an opera three years later. Anaya also published a number of books for children and young adults. His first children's book was The Farolitos of Christmas, published in 1995. Anaya's non-fiction work has appeared in many anthologies. In 2015, 52 of his collected essays exploring identity, literature, immigration, and politics were published as The Essays with Open Road Media. In summarizing his career, Anaya stated "What I’ve wanted to do is compose the Chicano worldview — the synthesis that shows our true mestizo identity — and clarify it for my community and for myself." Anaya lived in Albuquerque, where each day he spent several hours writing. He died at his home on June 28, 2020, at the age of 82. He had been suffering from a long illness in the time leading up to his death. Bibliography Fiction Bless Me, Ultima (1972), Heart of Aztlan (1976), Tortuga (1979), Silence of the Llano: Short Stories (1982), The Legend of La Llorona: A Short Novel (1984), Lord of the Dawn: the Legend of Quetzalcóatl (1987), Alburquerque (1992), Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert (1996), Serafina's Stories (2004), The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006), Randy Lopez Goes Home: A Novel (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas Series) (2011), The Old Man's Love Story (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas series) (2013), The Sorrows of Young Alfonso (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas series) (2016), Sonny Baca series Zia Summer (1995), Rio Grande Fall (1996), Shaman Winter (1999), Jemez Spring