Dominguez, Alejandro Grattan

Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez was born in El Paso, Texas, the old-est son of an Irish father and a Mexican mother. After flunking out of college twice, he finally made good at Texas A& M, before going on to SMU, (a transfer he likens as going from a concentration camp to a luxury resort) where he earned a BA in English Litera-ture. Relocating to Los Angeles, he worked as a claims adjuster, and amused by the fact that so many claimants experienced miracu-lous recoveries after receiving a settlement check, he wrote up a short synopsis-which somehow found its way to the famed di-rector, Alfred Hitc...