About the Author

Robert S. Rudder holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Minnesota. He has taught at that university and at several universities in California, including UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles, and Whittier College. He is the author and translator of more than a dozen books. Among these are The Paradox of Santa Teresa de Jesús; The Literature of Spain in English Translation; and translations of the writings of Benito Pérez Galdós, Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Castellanos, and Francisco Rojas González.