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Born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan in 1911, Carlos Bulosan was a Filipino-American novelist and poet best-known for the semi-autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart. Most of his youth has spent in the countryside as a farmer. Like many Filipinos during that time, he migrated to United States in the 1930's at the age of 17, in the hopes of finding greener pasteurs. Bulosan never saw his homeland again.
After many years of racial discrimination, starvation, and sickness, Bulosan had to undergo surgery for tuberculosis in Los Angeles. the operation made him lose most of the right side of his ribs and the function of one lung. He was confined in the hospital for two years where he took advantage and read one book per day, making him a prolific writer and poet of Filipino struggles abroad.
