C.M. Mayo

place of birth	El Paso
website	http://www.cmmayo.com
genre	Historical Fiction, Travel, Literature & Fiction
influences	Edith Wharton, Sara Mansfield Taber, Douglas Glover, MFK Fisher, Diana Vreeland, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Lorrie Moore, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, B. Traven, Janet Lewis, Francine Prose, Henry James, Edward Tufte, Bruce Chatwin, Margaret Sayers Peden, John McPhee, V.S. Naipaul, Paul Bowles
about this author C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, as well as the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, which was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.

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