Quiara hudes bio

Judy Woodruff: Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who’s also known for her collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights,” just released in a film version.

Now Hudes has written a deeply personal memoir called “My Broken Language” about navigating life as the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Jewish father in West Philadelphia.

For us, she has this Brief But Spectacular take on unearthing family stories.

It’s part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Quiara Algeria Hudes: I have said that the story of my family is the American story.

There are so many Americas, and, in the United States, there are so many Americas.

And I got to read about some of them growing up. Some of those books were assigned to me in high school. But my job as I became a young woman and a young artist was to learn about more of this nation, including my own history, which I had never read, was