Seymour Menton

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Seymour Menton has been studying and writing on Spanish American fiction for sixty years. His best known book is El cuento hispanoamericano, originally published in 1964 with several updated editions, the latest one in 2003. He has also published books on the novel and/or short story of Guatemala (1960, 1985), Costa Rica (1964), Cuba (1975), Colombia (1978 and 2007), and Mexico (1991). His last four books are Latin America's New Historical Novel (1993), Historia verdadera del realismo mágico (1998), Caminata por la narrativa latinoamericana (2002), and Un tercer gringo viejo: relatos y confesiones (2005). Caminata is an 800-page volume of selected works with new previously unpublished studies on Chilean, Bolivian, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Honduran, and Uruguayan topics. Menton has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Kansas, and the University of California, Irvine, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1965. He has also taught at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala, the Universidad de Costa Rica, and the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogotá. Although he has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, he has never forgotten his New York roots: he was born and raised in the Bronx, received his B.A. from CCNY, his M.A. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and his Ph.D. from NYU.