Irene NicholsonIRENE NICHOLSON was a distinguished British-born translator and Latin-Americanist with special expertise on Mexican and Central American mythology. Besides translating The Nine Guardians, she authored Firefly in the Night: A Study of Ancient Mexican oetry and Symbolism (1959), The X in Mexico: Growth within Tradition (1965), Liberators: A Study of Independence Movements in Spanish America (1969), and a later volume in the 1980s on Mexican and Central American Mythology. Read More Read Less