Author Biography
Elmer Mendoza is a literature professor and crime novelist, a formative figure in the genre known as narco-literature, or narco-lit. Also a dramatist and short story writer, he is best known for his series of detective novels starring detective Edgar Lefty Mendieta. The first Lefty Mendieta novel was A Lone Murderer, which immediately garnered praise for its realistic portrayal of Mexico's flourishing narco culture and the ways in which it has shaped Mexican law enforcement and politics. Mendoza has won several literature awards, including the Jose Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize, for Janis Joplin's Lover, and the prestigious Tusquets Prize, for Silver Bullets. Mendoza lives and writes in Culiacan, Mexico.
