# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-j-rodriguez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:42.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-j-rodriguez"
name: "Luis J. Rodriguez"
slug: "luis-j-rodriguez"
description: "Luis Javier Rodriguez is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Rodriguez is recognized as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature, identifying himself as a native Xicanx writer. His best-known work, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and has been controversial on school reading lists for its depictions of gang life."
tagline: "Pinto poetry, Chicanismo, and Chicano literature"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luis_J_Rodriguez_NBCC_Awards_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.311090666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لويس جي. رودريغيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويس جى. رودريجيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "لوئیس جی. رودریقوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_J._Rodriguez"
    title: "Luis J. Rodriguez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_J._Rodriguez"
    title: "Luis J. Rodriguez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luis_J._Rodriguez"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luis_J._Rodriguez"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e990bf4b-7575-4f78-aa7d-b2fb6ac5a789"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3840366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump