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Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in El Paso, Texas.

He grew up in Ysleta, an unincorporated neighborhood or colonia, on the east side of El Paso.

His parents built their own adobe house, and the family lived with kerosene lamps and stoves and an outhouse in the backyard during their first years in Texas.

Troncoso attended South Loop School and Ysleta High School, and later graduated from Harvard College and received two graduate degrees in international relations and philosophy from Yale University.

He won a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico, and was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame.

In 1999, his book of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories ( University of Arizona Press ), won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize for the best book by a new Chicano writer, and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association.