Becker, Marjorie

Marjorie Becker is the author of the poetry collections PIANO GLASS/GLASS PIANO and BODY BACH and of the historical monograph Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution. A fifth-generation Macon, Georgia Jewish native, she was trained in Spanish beginning in childhood. She studied in Spain and served in the Peace Corps in rural Paraguay. As a professional journalist, she wrote about race relations in the Deep South. A Yale trained historian of Latin American cultural history, much of her historical writing focuses on the Mexican...