Born to Mexican immigrant parents in 1938,Graciela

Limon has lived much of her life in the Los Angeles

Area. At an early age she was interested in

reading and writing and showedearly on a

promising career in the field. As a

daughter and a first generation born

she was discouraged by her

parents a well as her high school

to persue a career in a profession more

oriented for a woman. Upon graduating she

began to work and in the process saved money

to further her education in progress towards her

Bachelor of Arts, then her Master of Arts, and finally

her Doctoral degree. Her work primarily touches on

accounts and histories from not onlyMexico

but also Central America. Graciela Limon's words are thevoice

of the unheard and the largely ignored such as

indigenous population or of women.