Selena: The Phenomenal Life and Tragic Death of the Tejano Music Queen

by Clint Richmond

Recounts in English and Spanish the life and career of the Tejano music star who was murdered just as she was about to reach an English-speaking audience

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

CLINT RICHMOND, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, has more than thirty years' professional experience as a nonfiction book author, newspaper reporter, and freelance magazine journalist. He has published on a wide range of topics, from domestic terrorism and true crime, to pop psychology and celebrity biography.

FETCH THE DEVIL: The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America is his 10th published nonfiction book (2014 by the University Press of New England's ForeEdge imprint).

His current books in print include a contemporary true crime, THE GOOD WIFE, and a Cold War espionage history, RED STAR ROGUE, coauthored with veteran submariner Ken Sewell.

His book SELENA (1995, Pocket Books) about the murder of the beloved Tejana singer, opened at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Prior to becoming a book author, Richmond (writing under the name Jerry Richmond) was an award-winning reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, one of Texas's leading metropolitan dailies of that time. He was on the team assigned to the visit of President Kennedy to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Consequently, he was one of the key reporters to cover the assassination of the president, the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the killing of Oswald. He was that paper's lead criminal courts reporter during the Jack Ruby murder trial.

Later, as a freelance journalist, he was a Rocky Mountain regional correspondent for People Weekly, and has contributed to numerous other magazines and major daily newspapers.

Reviews

[Herlin Soto · Rating 4 out of 5]

On pg. 167:) many emotions given off, sit would have been a differnce if selena were alive for the tejanos.