Gregorio López y Fuentes
Gregorio López y Fuentes was an author whose most famous work was Una Carta a Dios (a Letter to God). He was born on 17th November, 1895 on a farm called 'El Mamey' in the municipality of Huasteca, in the province of Side Cross in Mexico.He was 15 years old when the revolution began. At the same age he began to write.
He became a teacher of Literature at a school in Mexico City. In 1921, he began writing for the Universal Graph, a newspaper. When writing for the newspaper, he often used the pseudonym Tulio F. Peseenz.
He wrote many books and stories in his life, on many subjects, but typically he wrote about Mexico, the country and its people. His stories were seen as exciting and humorous and symbolic of Mexico.
He has written many books including La siringa de cristal (1914), Claros de selva (1921), El vagabundo (1922), El alma del poblacho (1924), Campamento (1931), Tierra (1932), Mi general (1934), El Indio (1935), Arrieros (1937), Huasteca (1939) and many more.
Many of his books concern the Mexican Revolution because this time was influential in the life of the author. Other authors of this time are Mariano Azuela and Martín Luis Guzmán. Gregorio López y Fuentes died in 1966.
For the captain who inspired Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, see Gregorio Fuentes.
