COVER BIOGRAPHY Fernando Bricentilde;o is a self-educated writer in the English language, who felt compelled to write his story, to be part of the voice of the millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows in the United States. He doesn't claim to be a writer, but knows very well that every life has a story to tell and Memoirs of an Illegal Alien is the story of the last twenty-four years of his life. His beginnings are from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and attended the schools Jose Domingo de Santistevan, San Jose de La Salle, and Vicente Leon before he dropped out of high school in pursuit of his American dream.