Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (30 May 1918 Р8 May 2000) who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. She was born in Mexico City, the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French, German and Spanish ancestry, a member of the decaying Mexican aristocracy. May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de M̩xico) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de M̩xico), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...

During her lifetime she was known for her rebelliousness and audacity in her lifestyle. She was a friend of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and María Félix. She was called ‘The 11th Muse’. She was During her youth, she was an actress and a model for famous photographers and painters such as Diego Rivera and Raúl Anguiano. Diego Rivera Diego Rivera (born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico – died November 24, 1957), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, of Jewish Converso heritage and Catholic upbringing but a professed atheist, was in... José Clemente Orozco. ... David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 - January 6, 1974) was a Mexican painter and muralist. ... Maria Felix María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña, better known to the world as María Félix, (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican actress. ... Diego Rivera Diego Rivera (born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico – died November 24, 1957), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, of Jewish Converso heritage and Catholic upbringing but a professed atheist, was in...

Her poetry, influenced by Juana Inés de la Cruz and Francisco de Quevedo, is notable for its direct expressions about metaphysical issues stated in the first person. Sor Juana (12 November 1651 (or 1648, according to some biographers) – 17 April 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez, was a self taught Mexican scholar, nun, and writer of the... Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (born September 17, 1580 - September 8, 1645) was a Spanish writer during the siglo de oro. ...

She died in Mexico City at the age of 81.

Books

• Yo soy mi casa (1946) dedicated to her friend Gabriela Mistral
• Puerta obstinada (1947)
• Círculo de angustia (1948)
• Poesía (1948)
• Polvo (1949)
• Décimas a Dios (1953)
• Sirviéndole a Dios, de hoguera (1958)
• Todos los siglos del mundo (1959)
• Galería de Títeres (1959)
• Soy dueña del universo (1984)

Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. ...

References

• http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=3294 (in Spanish)
• http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/publicaciones/publi_quepaso/pita_amor.htm (in Spanish)