Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela was born in 1873 in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, the son of a rancher, and grew up on his father's farm, which later inspired the settings of many of his stories. At fourteen he entered a Catholic seminary but soon left, and he studied medicine in Guadalajara, receiving his degree in 1899. He practiced medicine in his hometown and in 1900 married Carmen Rivera. He wrote early novels about life under the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. When the Mexican Revolution began in 1910, he supported Francisco Madero, and he later served as a field doctor with the forces of Julián Medina, a follower of Pancho Villa. His most famous novel, The Underdogs (Los de abajo, 1915), first published in installments in El Paso, Texas, follows a peasant, Demetrio Macías, who becomes a rebel leader and is swept along by the violence of the war. Azuela is considered the first of the 'novelists of the Revolution'. He later practiced medicine in Mexico City and wrote novels sharply criticizing politics after the Revolution. He died in Mexico City in 1952.

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Faith: Briefly attended a Catholic seminary but abandoned religious studies. Source: Wikipedia