Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Mexico

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Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Religious Poet
(1651-1695)

Just the Facts:

Name: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana
Known as: Juana Inés de la Cruz
Birth: November 12, 1651, Tepetlixpa, Mexico
Death: April 17, 1695, Mexico City, Mexico
Languages: Spanish, Latin
Who she was: Mexican nun under colonial Spain who wrote poetry and dramas
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Francisco Garces, Spanish Franciscan
(1738-1781)

Garces converting Indians

Just the Facts:

Name: Francisco Garces
Birth: April 12, 1738, Morata de Jalón, Spain
Death: July 18, 1781, Fort Yuma, California, USA
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Painter
(1907-1954)

Just the Facts:

Name: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
Known as: Frida Kahlo
Birth: July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico
Death: July 13, 1954, Coyoacán, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who she was: Mexican painter; Self-Portrait with Monkey

Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet
(1914-1998)

Just the Facts:

Name: Octavio Paz Lozano
Known as: Octavio Paz
Birth: March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico
Death: April 19, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Mexican poet; Early Poems: 1935–1955; Collected Poems, 1957–1987; The Labyrinth of Solitude; They Shall Not Pass!; The Sun Stone; Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ambrose Bierce, American Writer
(1842-c. 1914?)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ambrose Bierce
Birth: June 24, 1842, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Death: Unknown Date, 1914?, Chihuahua, Mexico
Language: English
Who he was: American journalist, short story writer, and satirist; "Chickamauga"; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"; "The Death of Halpin Frayser"; "The Moonlit Road"; In the Midst of Life; The Devil's Dictionary
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Eusebio Kino, Italian Jesuit Missionary
(1645-1711)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eusebius Chinus (or Chini)
Known as: Eusebio Kino
Birth: August 10, 1645, Bishopric of Trent
Death: March 15, 1711, Magdalena de Kino, Mexico
Language: Italian, Spanish
Who he was: Italian Jesuit missionary; Spain in the West: Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Diego Rivera, Mexican Painter
(1886-1957)

Just the Facts:

Name: Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
Known as: Diego Rivera
Birth: December 8, 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
Death: November 24, 1957, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Mexican painter and muralist; murals Man, Controller of the Universe; The History of Mexico; paintings The Fecund Earth; The Flower Seller

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Writer
(1928-2012)

Just the Facts:

Name: Carlos Fuentes Macías
Known as: Carlos Fuentes
Birth: November 11, 1928, Panama City, Panama
Death: May 15, 2012, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Mexican novelist and essayist; Gringo Viejo (The Old Gringo); La Muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz); Terra Nostra
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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