John Rechy

John Rechy. Writer: Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy. John Francisco Rechy, born March 10, 1934 in El Paso, Texas, USA, is a writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and literary critic. The youngest of five children born to poor Mexican parents during the Depression, once wrote, "There was so much poverty and hunger in El Paso and Juarez that we didn't consider ourselves poor, because we ate and...