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Writer. Government of Mexico, Mexican Foreign Service, posted to San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY, secretary at Mexican Embassy in Paris, beginning 1945, charge d'affaires at Mexican Embassy in Japan, beginning 1951, posted to Mexican Secretariat for External Affairs, 1953-58, extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister to Mexican Embassy, 1959-62, ambassador to India, 1962-68. Visiting professor of Spanish-American literature, University of Texas at Austin and University of Pittsburgh, 1968-70; Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies, 1970, and fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, 1970-71; Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, 1971-72; Professor of comparative literature, Harvard University, 1973-80. Regent's fellow at University of California, San Diego.
