Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Bio | Wiki
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez is an American best-selling author, journalist, and film producer. She is best known for her bestselling novel titled The Dirty Girls Social Club. Alisa was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics. Alisa is best known for never letting readers of her blog forget either fact.
She has contributed to the literary field such as Playing with Boys, Dirty Girls Social Club, and thinly disguised attacks upon Jennifer Lopez. Every serious reviewer that has read their jackets has described Alisa’s works as garbage. She is a self-important author who has exhibited a tendency to succumb to outrageous temper tantrums after she eats calamari.
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Age
She was born on February 28, 1969, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. Alisa is 53 years old.
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Alisa stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in ( Approx 1.68m).
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Family
She was born and raised by her parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Alisa’s dad Nelson Valdés is a retired sociology professor at the University of New Mexico. He emigrated from Cuba in the early 1960s. Alisa’s mother, Maxine Conant, is a seventh-generation New Mexican of mixed heritage, including Native American, French Jewish, Mexican, Spanish, and Irish ancestry.
Maxine has English lines tracing directly back to Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Massachusetts, as well as Vermont revolutionary Ethan Allen. Alisa spent her childhood primarily in New Mexico. However, she also lived briefly in Glasgow, Scotland, and New Orleans.
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Education
After her graduation from Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, she proceeded to join Berklee College of Music in Boston. While there Alisa majored in jazz performance on the tenor saxophone.
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Husband
She married her ex-husband called Patrick Jason Rodriguez. The couple exchanged their wedding vows in 1998. They later welcomed a son called Alexander. Alisa and Patric parted ways in 2005.
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She started writing freelance music reviews for The Boston Globe while a student at Berklee. Alisa took an unpaid internship at the Village Voice after graduating from Berklee in 1992. In 1994, she went back to school to earn a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In the same year, Alisa then joined the staff of The Boston Globe where she wrote for the Living/Arts section.
Her essay for The Boston Globe Magazine titled “Daughter of Cuba,” won first place in the 1998 SUNMAG essay contest. Alisa left Boston in 1999 for a position as a staff writer in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. Her articles have appeared in numerous newspapers. She has also written cover stories for Glamour and Redbook.
Alisa continues to work in journalism currently writing a weekly parenting column for the website “Mamiverse.” which is an opinion piece for NBC Latino, she also writes a travel piece for the London newspaper The Guardian. Apart from that, Alisa contributes posts for The Huffington Post Books section.
Alisa’s Colleague At The Guardian Include:
Nesrine Malik – columnist
Rachel Roddy – contributor
George Monbiot – writer
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez The Dirty Girls Social Club
Her first novel titled The Dirty Girls Social Club was bought by St. Martin’s Press a little more than a year after Alisa left the Los Angeles Times. After five publishing houses bid for the manuscript, she was paid an advance of $475,000. Chicago Tribune reporter Patrick T. Reardon wrote in a profile of the writer, titled “The Latina Terry McMillan?” that “What made [the book] especially hot was the belief among publishers that Valdes-Rodriguez could be the long-sought ‘Latina Terry McMillan’ — a writer whose work would jump-start Hispanic book buying in the U.S. and create a new profitable publishing niche…”
The novel garnered media attention and become a New York Times bestseller and a Booksense 76 top pick. In 2013, Alisa wrote a memoir, The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story. It detailed her relationship with a conservative ranch hand and how it led her to rethink some of her feminist beliefs. She alleged that the relationship was abusive after the book was published. Time dubbed Alisa “The Godmother of Chica Lit” and also named her one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States in 2015.
Hispanic Business Magazine has named Alisa twice among the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America. The Hispanic Congressional Caucus awarded her with a Latina Leadership award in 2016. She also took part in the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress. In 2004, Alisa received the Theatre of Hearts “Youth First” award in Los Angeles.
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Books
Novels
– 2003 The Dirty Girls Social Club
– 2004 Playing with Boys
– 2006 Make Him Look Good
– 2006 Haters
– 2008 Dirty Girls on Top
– 2010 The Husband Habit
– 2011 All That Glitters
– 2010 The Three Kings
– 2011 Laurens Saints of Dirty Faith
– 2012 The Temptation
– 2012 Puta
– 2014 The Temptation of Demetrio Vigil
Novelitas
– 2012 Lauren’s Very Dirty Chapter
– 2012 Billy, the Man
– 2013 Better Lover Than a Husband
– 2013 Forgive Me My Sins
Anthologies
– 2004 Girls Night In
– 2006 Girls Night Out (anthology)
– 2006 Maybe Baby (anthology)
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Net Worth
She is an American best-selling author, journalist, and film producer. Alisa has accumulated an estimated net worth of $2,694,781.
How Old Is Alisa Valdes Rodriguez
Alisa is 53 years old. She was born on February 28, 1969, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
Who Is Alisa Valdes Rodriguez
Alisa is an American best-selling author, journalist, and film producer. She is best known for her bestselling novel titled The Dirty Girls Social Club. Alisa was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics.
Is Alisa Valdes Rodriguez Married
She married Patrick Jason Rodriguez. The couple exchanged their wedding vows in 1998. They later welcomed a son called Alexander. Alisa and Patric parted ways in 2005.