Chávez de Chacón was the first Latina elected to statewide office in the United States, and the first woman in the nation to win an election for that office. She would serve two terms as New Mexico Secretary of State through 1926 and in 1934 was elected to New Mexico’s House of Representatives, becoming the fourth Latina to hold that office.
Mexican historian
Mexican sociologist
Mexican essayist and fiction writer
Storyteller, playwright, and puppeteer, one of the greatest promoters of children’s theater and literature in Mexico.
Mexican novelist, poet, journalist, playwright, silent film actress, screenwriter, and composer
Mexican writer, actress, and translator of plays
Mexican actress, singer, writer, screenwriter, editor, director, and film producer
Adela Arriola was a Mexicanteacher and poet who wrote in the style of her generation’s Romantics.
Evelina Bobes Ortega was a Mexican novelist who won the Miguel Lanz Duret Prize in 1950 for her novel Otoño estéril (Barren Autumn). She also published two other novels, La ciudad y la música (The City and the Music, 1951) and El viento de noviembre (The November Wind, 1965).