SCHMIDHUBER DE LA MORA, GUILLERMO

His titles are: Chemical Engineer at the University of Guadalajara, MBA at Wharton School of Business University of Pennsylvania, MA and PhD in Humanities at University of Cincinnati.

He has published 123 books, and as playwright has been cited as one of the most important Mexican playwright's in Felicia Hardson Londré's. The History of World Theatre, and in Cambridge Encyclopedia of World Theatre. He is a specialist in Mexican theatre of the 20s and 30s. As an author he has won innumerable prizes at home and abroad, including the 1987 Letras de Oro for best work in Spanish in the United States (1987), and the National Award of Theatre by the Mexican government (1980). His works have been published in more than eighty books in Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, the U.S., and Mexico.

He taught at the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and at several Mexican universities. Now is researcher and professor of the University of Guadalajara, México. As a researcher his achievements include the discovery of two previously lost texts of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; one of them, The Second Celestina, was published with a prologue by Octavio Paz. He is full professor at the University of Guadalajara and guest professor at ITESM.

He is one of the leading scholars doing research about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz´ s genealogy with the discovery of 150 documents previously unknown. He is author of 127 books, or chapter of books.

Among his most notable works as an author are: Obituary (Obituario), The Useless Heroes (Los Heroes Inútiles), The Heirs of Segismund (Los Herederos de Segismundo), The Secret Friendship of Juana and Dorothy (La Secreta Amistad de Juana y Dorotea), Never Say Adiós to Columbus, among others thirty plays. His novel Women of the Tequila Volcano has been published simultaneously in Argentina and Mexico. His plays have been translated into German, French and English.

He was Cultural Attaché for the State of Jalisco 1995-2001, Mexico, and worked for 8 years as museum director in Tijuana and Monterrey, México.

He lives in Guadalajara, México, where he continues teaching and writing books, with the company of his wife and three children.