Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Diego Rivera, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Vasconcelos, Carlos Chavez, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mario J. Molina, Antonio Alatorre, Antonio Castro Leal, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Enrique Krauze, Alfonso Caso y Andrade, Dr. Atl, Enrique Gonzalez Martinez, Alfonso Reyes, Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Marcos Moshinsky, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Novaro, Guillermo Haro, Gabriel Zaid, Arturo Rosenblueth, Ignacio Chavez Sanchez, Salvador Elizondo, Jaime Torres Bodet, Hector Fix-Zamudio, Daniel Cosio Villegas, Arcadio Poveda, Mario Lavista, Agustin Yanez, Mariano Azuela, Alfonso Garcia Robles, Silvio Zavala, Samuel Ramos, Leopoldo Garcia-Colin, Ramon Xirau, Fernando del Paso, Eduardo Mata, Victor Urquidi, Pablo Rudomin Zevnovaty, Jesus Silva Herzog, Francisco Bolivar Zapata, Antonio Carrillo Flores, Ruben Bonifaz Nuno, Ignacio Bernal, Alejandro Rossi, Manuel Uribe y Troncoso, Jose Villagran Garcia, Jose Adem. Excerpt: Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solorzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the Revolution against the Diaz regime. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico City) by his mother Josefina (daughter of Spanish immigrants), his aunt Amalia Paz, and his paternal grandfather Ireneo Paz, a liberal intellectual, novelist, publisher and former supporter of President Porfirio Diaz. He studied at Colegio Williams. Because of his family's public support of Emiliano Zapata, they were forced into exile after Zapata's assassination. They served their exile in the United States. Paz was introduced to literature early in his life through the influence of his grandfather's libr...