Upon arriving in Seattle, he was met with racism and was forced to work low paying jobs. He never again saw his Philippine homeland. His home town is also the starting point of his semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart.įollowing the pattern of many Filipinos during the American colonial period, he left for America on July 22, 1930, at age 17, in the hope of finding salvation from the economic depression of his home. It is during his youth that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich and political elite, which would become one of the main themes of his writing. Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer. 1911 is generally considered to be the most reliable answer, based on his baptismal records, but according to the Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Bulosan was born on November 2, 1913. There is considerable debate around his actual birth date, as he himself used several dates. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart, but he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The Freedom from Want.īulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in Binalonan, Pangasinan. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United States. Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (Novem – September 11, 1956) was a Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States on July 1, 1930.
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