Beth E. J rgensen is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Writings of Elena Poniatowska- Engaging Dialogues, and articles on Poniatowska, Margo Glantz, and Benita Galeana. Ilan Stavans is a professor of Spanish at Amherst College and the author of On Borrowed Words- A Memoir of Language and The Hispanic Condition, as well as the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mariano Azuela, more than any other novelist of the Mexican Revolution, lifts the heavy stone of history to see what there is underneath it. -- Carlos Fuentes