Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes Explores How Her Puerto Rican Roots Shaped Her Artistic Voice

Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who's also known for her collaboration with Lin Manuel Miranda on the Tony-winning musical "In the Heights."

Now she's written a deeply personal memoir called “My Broken Language” about growing up in Philadelphia with her vibrant Puerto Rican mother and abuela — her grandmother — on whose steps she heard the stories that would inspire her art.