[FMT]Contents[\]
List of Illustrations 000
Foreword by Carlos Fuentes 000
Preface 000
Introduction: "I Am Moved by Desire" 000
1 To Live a Fairy Tale 000
2 University of the Street 000
3 "Elenita": The Young Writer 000
4 The Adobe Princess 000
5 Unknown Mexico 000
6 1968: The Year of Tlatelolco 000
7 Disaster's Widow 000
8 From Earth to Heaven 000
9 Elena: An International Treasure (A Conclusion of Sorts) 000
Notes 000
Annotated Bibliography 000
Index 000
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[FMT]Illustrations[\]
Fairlight Castle, the home of Elena's mother 000
Elena and her sister, Kitzia, with their parents 000
Elena, her mother, and her sister arriving in Mexico from Havana 000
Portrait of Elena as a young woman 000
Kitzia and Elena in front of the portrait of their grandmother 000
A still from The Consequences of a First Marriage 000
Elena as a young woman 000
Elena with Fernando Benítez in the offices of Novedades 000
Elena at her typewriter 000
Drawing of Elena, the "enfant terrible" 000
Elena in profile 000
Elena strapless 000
Benítez, Fuentes, Vigón, Fern ndez Retamar, Sarduy, and Jamis with Elena in
Havana 000
Elena with the flu 000
Elena as seen through the lens of Katy Horna 000
Gathering at Elena's home, where Siglo XXI Editores had its first home 000
With Juan Rulfo 000
With David Alfaro Siqueiros in the Black Palace of Lecumberri 000
With Argentinean novelist Julio Cort zar 000
A pregnant Elena with the "red priest," Sergio Méndez Arceo 000
Elena with her ever-present notebook 000
Elena Poniatowska's ex libris 000
With her "Mexican Virgil," Josefina Bórquez 000
Elena's brother, Jan 000
Guillermo and Elena with Felipe 000
Vicente Rojo, Elena Poniatowska, Nelly Keogerzan, etc. 000
With Guillermo at María Luisa "China" Mendoza's wedding 000
Elena receiving the National Journalism Prize, 1978 000
Portrait of Elena, 1979 000
The "Angel of the City" 000
Elena in disguise 000
The "Red Princess" 000
"Widow of Disaster" 000
Consecrated author, 1990 000
Elena portrayed as the Venus of Botticelli 000
Face-to-face with Subcomandante Marcos 000
With Octavio Paz, 1987 000
With Gabriel García M rquez 000
Elena pictured as Frida Kahlo 000
With Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros in Texas 000