Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican

Mexico

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 poet

Poet

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. She was born in Mexico City

Mexico City

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, the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French

France

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, German

Germany

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 and Spanish

Spain

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 ancestry, a member of the Mexican aristocracy. Her parents were Carolina Schmidtlein y García Teruel (of German and Spanish origin) and Don Emmanuel Amor Subervielle (of Spanish and French origin). Her family's financial woes after the revolution

Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...

 are narrated in Yo soy mi casa.

During her lifetime she was known for her rebelliousness and audacity in her lifestyle. Her family was shocked when it was revealed that she posed-and was portrayed-nude. She was a friend of Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...

, José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others...

, David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

José David Alfaro Siqueiros was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an...

, and María Félix

María Félix

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She was called "The 11th Muse". During her youth, she was an actress and a model for famous photographers and painters such as Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...

 and Raúl Anguiano

Raúl Anguiano

José Raúl Anguiano Valadez was a Mexican critical realist painter, draftsman, muralist, and engraver, as well as a member of the second generation of the so-called "Mexican School of Painting" in Mexican art, along with Juan O'Gorman, Judith Gutierrez, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado,...

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Her poetry, influenced by Juana Inés de la Cruz ("The 10th Muse") and Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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, is notable for its direct expressions about metaphysical issues stated in the first person.

She was a cousin of the Mexican author Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes‎, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...

 Amor, and a descendant of Mexican aristocrats

Mexican nobility

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She died in Mexico City at the age of 81.

Books

• Yo soy mi casa (1946) dedicated to her friend Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral
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• 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)
• El Zoológico de Pita Amor (1975) dedicated to Rodolfo Chavez Parra
• Tan la tos (1945)