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María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (July 3, 1832 – August 12, 1895) was a Californio author and intellectual, best known as the first female Mexican-American writer to be published in English. During her career, she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It?
Américo Paredes (September 3, 1915 – May 5, 1999) was an American author born in Brownsville, Texas who authored several texts focusing on the border life that existed between the United States and Mexico, particularly around the Rio Grande region of South Texas. His family on his father’s side, however, had been in the Americas since 1580.
Mary Helen Ponce, author of The Wedding (1989) and the collection Taking Control (1987) [1] Estela Portillo Trambley (1936–1998), author of Trini (1986), the play The Day of the Swallows (1971) and the collection Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (1975) for which she became the first woman to receive the Quinto Sol Literary Prize. [1]
Baur met her second husband, John Wayne, an American actor, in Mexico City in 1941, while she was still married to her first husband. Wayne was vacationing there. [ 8 ] Wayne was still married to his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz, but their marriage ended on Christmas Day 1945.
Elena Zelayeta (1898-1974), Mexican-born American cookbook author Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (born 1973), novelist, short story writer Rose Zwi (1928–2018), Mexican-born South African novelist, short story writer
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Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (May 16, 1894 – October 14, 1991) was an American educator, nutritionist, activist and writer. She was also the first known published author of a cookbook describing New Mexican cuisine. [1] Cabeza de Baca was fluent in Spanish, English, Tewa and Tiwa. [2]
Isidoro Armijo (February 15, 1871 - August 22, 1949), also known as "Sunny Jim Sherman", [1] was a Mexican American author, land agent, county clerk, politician, and teacher. [1] Well known for his story "Sesenta minutos en los infiernos", which was also translated into English.