Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in 1873. He penned this novel in 1915 as "The Underdogs: The Story of the Mexican Revolution." As a young writer he supported Francisco I. Madero's uprising, which overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. In 1911, Azuels was made Director of Education of the State of Jalisco and published his first novel, "Andres Perez". After Madero's assassination, he joined the army of...
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