Martín Luis Guzmán

Martín Luis Guzmán.

Martín Luis Guzmán Franco (October 6, 1887 – December 22, 1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist.

Life

Guzmán was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Along with Mariano Azuela, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. His novels La sombra del caudillo (1929) and El águila y la serpiente (1928) depict the Mexican Revolution and its political aftermath, both of which the author was familiar with, having contributed both to revolutionary agitation and to the formation of the new revolutionary government.

For several months in 1914, he was under the direct orders of General Francisco "Pancho" Villa. He later wrote a five-volume biography of Villa, Memorias de Pancho Villa (1936-1951).

Martin Luis Guzmán died suddenly on December 22, 1976 Mexico City due an acute myocardial infarction. His widow Ana West, died seven years after him, on October 21st, 1983. She was 95 years old when, after being hospitalized for some days due to an acute bilateral neumonia, she suffered a cardiac arrest and died.

See also

• Politics in fiction

Sources

• Encyclopedia Britannica

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Name	Guzman, Martin Luis
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Date of birth	October 6, 1887
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Date of death	December 22, 1976
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