José Antonio Villarreal
 José Antonio Villarreal (30 July 1924 – 13 January 2010) was a Chicano novelist.Villarreal was born in 1924 in Los Angeles California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.