George Colon
Born in, Puerto Rico, George Colon survived the South Bronx’s. distractions to receive a street education, as well as degrees in English and education. Teaching English, history, geography and Spanish in Bronx schools for thirty years, after retiring he published
a teacher novel, Confessions of a Rogue Teacher (iUniverse,2008). A second novel, To Kill President (iUniverse, 2011), explores the1950 suicidal assassination attempt on President Truman by members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. After traveling a good part of the globe, he lays out his impression of its people, history, philosophy religion and politics in A Bronx Teacher’s Travels.
His memoir, “A Bronx Teacher Saga: The Triumphs and Tribulations of a Puerto Rican English Teacher” tells of thirty classroom, years 1978 -2008 teaching English, Global and Spanish in Bronx high schools. Woven into my memoir’s fabric, find embroidered a Puerto Rican family journey from the cane fields, to the Promised Land. Also, a coming of age tale in the turbulent South Bronx, 1950’s and ‘60’s. His education. Parts of his memoir and poems appear in in various publications.
a teacher novel, Confessions of a Rogue Teacher (iUniverse,2008). A second novel, To Kill President (iUniverse, 2011), explores the1950 suicidal assassination attempt on President Truman by members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. After traveling a good part of the globe, he lays out his impression of its people, history, philosophy religion and politics in A Bronx Teacher’s Travels.
His memoir, “A Bronx Teacher Saga: The Triumphs and Tribulations of a Puerto Rican English Teacher” tells of thirty classroom, years 1978 -2008 teaching English, Global and Spanish in Bronx high schools. Woven into my memoir’s fabric, find embroidered a Puerto Rican family journey from the cane fields, to the Promised Land. Also, a coming of age tale in the turbulent South Bronx, 1950’s and ‘60’s. His education. Parts of his memoir and poems appear in in various publications.