Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) was a Mexican writer and physician who wrote novels, plays and literary criticism. His fiction about the Mexican Revolution of 1910 made him the first of the novelists of the Revolution, and he had an influence on later Mexican writers of social protest. He received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1949. His book "The Underdogs" is among his titles.