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The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
Book Talk
C.M. Mayo
Author and Publisher
May 27, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Location: Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Room
Open to: Public
C.M. Mayo is the author of
Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and
Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. A long-time resident of Mexico City and an avid translator of Mexican poetry and fiction, she is founding editor of “Tameme” and also the editor of
Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, an anthology of Mexican fiction and literary prose which Mexican poet and critic David Huerta has called “one of the outstanding contemporary works on this country.”
Mayo’s latest work,
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, is based on the true and never before completely told story (based on original archival research) about a half-American, half-Mexican boy who, as in a fairytale, became a prince and then a pawn in the struggle-to-the-death over Mexico’s destiny.
