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Oswald Rivera
Rivera in New York City book signing in 2013
Born	January 15, 1944 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Occupation	Novelist and cookbook author.
Alma mater	City College of New York
Notable works	The Centurion (2016) The Pharaoh’s Feast (2013) The Proud and Immortal (2013)
Notable awards	Blank (19XX) Blank (19XX)
Spouses	Holly Fancher (m. 2003)
Children	Blank
Website
oswaldrivera.com
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Early life

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Military Service

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Career

New York Police Department

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Writing

Rivera's first novel was... Quotes, "To be alive is to be committed," and "To be an atheist is to be the most spiritual of beings simply because you must have faith in the most contradictory thing of all – humanity."

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Personal Life

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Martial Arts

Rivera has been known as Master Rivera at the Chinese Kung-Fu Wu-Su Association in Manhattan, which was founded in 1967 by Grandmaster Alan Lee. It is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the teaching and preservation of the traditional Chinese martial arts. Oswald has been active in Kung-Fu for 40 years, 30 of which have been spent teaching the Shaolin style. He has appeared in one of the leading martial arts publications, Black Belt magazine, and his Meditative & Concentration Techniques of Kung Fu was published in the Encyclopedia of Body/Mind Disciplines. He also has written an article entitled Grandmaster Alan Lee: The Making of a Legend for Inside Kung Fu magazine.

Bibliography

Title	Year	Category	ISBN
Puerto Rican Cuisine in America: Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes	1993	Cookbook	9781568582443
Fire and Rain: A Novel of Vietnam	1993	Novel	9780941423410
The Pharaoh's Feast: From Pit-Boiled Roots to Pickled Herring, Cooking Through the Ages with 100 Simple Recipes	2003	Cookbook	9781568582825
The Proud and the Immortal	2003	Novel	9781882190744
Feasting With The Ancestors: Cooking Through The Ages With 110 Simple Recipes	2004	Cookbook	9780750938365
Puerto Rican Cuisine in America: Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes	2015	Cookbook	9780762456482
The Centurion	2016	Novel	9781941859490
In the Time of the Americans	2019	Novel

References

• DeMott, Robert and Steinbeck, Elaine A., eds. John Steinbeck, Novels and Stories 1932–1937 (Library of America, 1994) ISBN 978-1-883011-01-7
• "Black Belt". Black Belt. Vol. 34, no. 8. August 1996. p. 168.

• Oswald wrote the Instruction of Kung-Fu in this book. (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5199jcnbqwEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR30&dq=%22Oswald+Rivera%22&ots=CdRAyuuHDu&sig=8YTo5pKTg5S89rYZV5V58z_3szU#v=onepage&q=%22Oswald%20Rivera%22&f=false)  (Click on the line on the scroll bar on the right to jump to the section he wrote)

• Oswald was a contributor for this book (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=GZVweuXhZlkC&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=%22Oswald+Rivera%22&ots=GMbG4u6STb&sig=z9mwqxdZBBVg6zzkGnSWhBDosdY#v=onepage&q=%22Oswald%20Rivera%22&f=false)  (Click on the line on the scroll bar on the right to jump to the section citing him)

• Oswald was cited or wrote the historical section for this book (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pk63U0ppWYAC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=%22Oswald+Rivera%22&ots=Pe58MOxevc&sig=6mmx5pcq04MCObqVb2McPJF7nRM#v=onepage&q=%22Oswald%20Rivera%22&f=false) (Click on the line on the scroll bar on the right to jump to the section citing him)

External links

• Official Website
• "Oswald Rivera" from Pegasus Books
• "Master Oswald Rivera" from Chinese Kung-Fu Wu-Su Association in Manhattan
• "Cooking Recipes" by Oswald Rivera

Category:Cookbooks Category:1944 births Category:City College of New York alumni Category:People from Ponce, Puerto Rico Category:American people of Spanish descent Category:Hong Kong kung fu practitioners Category:Chinese wushu practitioners Category:Puerto Rican male martial artists Category:Writers from New York City Category:Recipients of the Silver Star