biography
| name: |
Castaneda, Carlos E(duardo)
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pronunciation:
[kastanayda]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1958)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Camarga, Mexico. He emigrated to the USA at age 10, and studied at the University of Texas where he became (from 1927) Latin-American librarian and then history professor. He wrote widely on Latin-American history and translated the first known play written in the Americas (1935), by a Spanish priest and friend of the explorer Hernando Cortez. |
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