writing was his work of revolutionary fiction, El águila y la serpiente. With the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40), who had turned against his political patron Calles, Guzmán was invited to return to Mexico, where he returned to journalism and began writing Memorias de Pancho Villa. Martin Luis Guzmán was a public figure in Mexico, serving as a senator from 1969 to 1976. He died suddenly on December 22, 1976 in Mexico City due an acute myocardial infarction. His widow Ana West died seven years after him, on October 21, 1983. She was 95 years old when, after being hospitalized for some days due to an acute bilateral pneumonia, she suffered a cardiac arrest and died. Works His novels La sombra del caudillo (1929) and El águila y la serpiente (1928) depict the Mexican Revolution and its political aftermath, with both of which the author was familiar, having contributed both to revolutionary agitation and to the formation of the new revolutionary government. La querella de México (1915) A orillas del Hudson (1920) El águila y la serpiente (1928) La sombra del caudillo (1929) Aventuras democráticas (1931) Mina al mozo: Héroe de Navarra (1932) Filadelfia: Paraíso de conspiradores (1933) Kinchil (1946) Memorias de Pancho Villa (1951) Apunte sobre una personalidad (1954) Muertes Históricas (1958) Islas Marías, novela y drama (1959) Pábulo para la historia (1961) Necesidad de cumplir las Leyes de Reforma (1963) Febrero de 1913 (1963) Crónica de mi destierro (1964) See also Politics in fiction References Sources Encyclopædia Britannica Further reading Bruce-Novoa, Juan. "Martin Luis Guzmán's Necessary Overtures." Discurso Literario 4:1 (1986). Camp, Roderic Ai. "Martín Luis Guzmán" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 3, p. 157. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996. Foster, David William. "Escrutando el texto de la revolución;" "El aguila" y "La serpiente" de Martin Luis Guzman." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 15.30 (1989): 79-90. Gyurko, Lanin. "Martin Luis Guzmán" in Latin American Writers, ed. Carlos A. Solé and Maria Isabel Abreu. New York: Scribner 1989. Legrás, Horacio. "Martín Luis Guzmán: el viaje de la revolución." MLN (2003): 427-454. McGenney, William, ed. Five essays on Martín Luis Guzmán. (1978). Perea, Héctor. "Martín Luis Guzmán Franco" in Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, pp. 622–23. Stanton, Ruth. "Martín Luis Guzmán's Place in Modern Mexican Literature," in Hispania 26 (1943), 136-38. Notes on Mexico and the U.S. translation Mexican journalists Male journalists Mexican