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Biography

Manuel Roig-Franzia is the author of Simon and Schuster’s “The Rise of Marco Rubio.” (“El Ascenso de Marco Rubio” is the title of the Spanish-language edition.) Roig-Franzia is a writer in The Washington Post’s Style section. He writes long-form pieces on a broad range of subjects, exploring politics, power and the culture of Washington, as well as profiling major political figures and authors.

In more than 11 years at The Post, Roig-Franzia has served as bureau chief in Miami for the National staff and in Mexico City for the Foreign staff. He’s covered U.S. and international presidential campaigns, the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and more than a dozen major hurricanes, including Katrina.

Manuel Roig-Franzia in Haiti.

Manuel Roig-Franzia, right, covers the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake in March 2010.

His wanderings have led him into the domain of drug cartels, down the streets of Havana and El Paso, into the food stalls of Mexico City markets and through the Everglades. He’s been just as likely to find himself in a governor’s office as strolling through the haze of barbecue smoke at “Uncle Earl’s Hog Dog Trials” in Winnfield, La., where Catahoula hounds chase wild boars through a rodeo ring. Besides writing for the Style section and for the front page, Roig-Franzia frequently contributes pieces for the Sunday magazine, Food, Travel and Book Review sections.

Roig-Franzia came to The Post from The New Orleans Times-Picayune, where he wrote about the colorful, four-time governor, Edwin Edwards, and learned how to make a mean gumbo.

He is an adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he teaches reporting and writing. And he has served as a writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin.

He has a bachelor’s in English literature from UCLA and a master’s from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He was born in Spain and grew up in Northern California.

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The Rise of Marco Rubio was released on June 19, 2012 from Simon & Schuster.


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