Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry

Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry (born August 23, 1942) is an American literary critic and writer of Hispanic descent.

The daughter of Carlota and Canuto Gonzáles, she was born on the family farm near Roy, New Mexico and grew up in Roy and in Rosebud, New Mexico. She was educated at a boarding school in El Rito and went on to receive a BS in Education and a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of New Mexico. She taught Spanish at Earlham College for four years. She then taught for one year at New Mexico State University, moving to the University of New Mexico in 1979 and becoming a full professor there four years later. In 1992, she was elected chair of the Spanish department.[1][2]

Her writings on literature include Las Mujeres Hablan: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicana Writers published in 1988 and Pasó por aquí : critical essays on the New Mexican literary tradition, 1542-1988 published in 1989. She was also editor of Contested Homeland: A Chicano. History of New Mexico and Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. In 1991, she published the novel Paletitas de Guayaba, a fictional autobiography.[1][3]

She married Edward Berry; the couple had one daughter.[2]

References
  1. Lomelí, Francisco A; Urioste, Donaldo W.; Villaseñor, María Joaquina (2016). Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature. p. 140. ISBN 1442275499.
  2. Telgen, Diane (1993). Notable Hispanic American Women. pp. 181–82. ISBN 0810375788.
  3. Ihrie, Maureen; Oropesa, Salvador (2011). World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. pp. 455–56. ISBN 0313080836.
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