In 1946 Carlos Bulosan was arguably the best-known Filipino writer in the United States. A decade later, in 1956 Bulosan died of pneumonia contracted after a night of drinking and wandering the roads of Seattle. He was 45 blacklisted from the FBI, and, despite an armful of published works a literary obscurity.
What happened between 1946 and 1956 is no mystery. Bulosan -- a dedicated labor organizer, a self-proclaimed socialist, and a writer who believed firmly in the melding of art and politics -- had not changed radically, on the other hand the United States ...
