During his long stay in the hospital, Bulosan spent his time constantly reading and writing. There, he underwent three operations and stayed two years, mostly in the convalescent ward. In 1936, Bulosan suffered from tuberculosis and was taken to the Los Angeles County hospital. He also worked as a dishwasher with his brother Lorenzo in the famous Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. He worked as a farmworker, harvesting grapes and asparagus, while also working other forms of hard labor in the fields of California. Upon arriving in Seattle, he was met with racism and was forced to work low paying jobs. He never again saw his Philippine homeland. His home town is also the starting point of his semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart.įollowing the pattern of many Filipinos during the American colonial period, he left for America on Jat age 17, in the hope of finding salvation from the economic depression of his home. It is during his youth that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich and political elite, which would become one of the main themes of his writing.
Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer.
1911 is generally considered to be the most reliable answer, based on his baptismal records, but according to the late Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Carlos was born on November 2, 1913. There is considerable debate around his actual birth date, as he himself used several dates. Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in Binalonan, Pangasinan.
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