Manuel Sánchez MármolManuel Sánchez Mármol worked as the personal secretary to Colonel Gregorio Méndez Magaña, obtained a law degree, and and went on to occupy a variety of state government positions, eventually rising to become a federal congressman. Even with his busy olitical career, Manuel Sánchez Mármol found time to do what educated gentlemen did: indulge his passion for literature. Together with a handful of leading Yucatecan intellectuals, he published a satirical newspaper (La burla), and on his own, the pro-Liberal El águila azteca (1862) in Tabasco. Sánchez Mármol also authored four other novels-El brindis de la Navidad, Pocahontas, Juanita Souza, and Previvida-together with a monograph on Mexican education, Las letras patrias. Read More Read Less