Rafael F. Muñoz

Rafael F. Muñoz (Chihuahua, 1899 - Mexico City, 1972) was the son of a prominent lawyer from Chihuahua; he spent his childhood at the El Pabellón ranch, near the border with the United States, where he had access to a large library. He completed his studies at the Scientific and Literary Institute of Chihuahua; later, he moved to Mexico City to study at the National Preparatory School, but due to the Huerta usurpation, he was forced to return to Chihuahua. He began his career as a journalist in February 1914 with a chronicle about the Ten Tragic Days, published in the newspaper Vida Nueva, where he also worked as an editor and translator. He sympathized with Obregón and during Carranza's government, he self-exiled to California, United States. Upon his return to Mexico in 1920, he collaborated with various newspapers; he was the chief editor of El Universal Gráfico and, in 1930, director of El Nacional. He collaborated with Jaime Torres Bodet as his press chief at the Ministry of Public Education (1943-1946) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1946-1951). He was elected a member of the Mexican Academy of Language, but died before reading his acceptance speech.

Considered by literary critics as one of the great writers of the Mexican Revolution for his novels Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1931) and They Took the Cannon to Bachimba (1941), and his stories, he also wrote the essay: Santa Anna, the Resplendent Dictator (1938).

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