Domingo Martinez (author)
Domingo Martinez is a Mexican-American author best known for his memoirs The Boy Kings of Texas and My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. The Boy Kings of Texas was a finalist in the non-fiction category in the 2012 National Book Award contest. These books describe his difficult childhood in Brownsville, Texas, as well as his later struggles as an adult. Martinez found writing these books cathartic and used the writing as a healing process to deal with his feelings and emotions.
