In the novel, Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya argues that it is possible to grow up into your own person, full of wisdom which you have gained through experience and truth, and not be dragged down by the social racism into which so many people are drawn. Anaya shows this through his characterization of Antonio Marez, who is exposed and exposes the reader to an unconventional wisdom or alternative approaches to truth which he learns from La Grande, the curandera of his hometown.
             1. Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya was born in New Mexico on October 30th, 1937.
             2. His mother Rafaelita Mares left her fathers valley in 1919 to marry Solomon Bonney, from El Llano Estacado. Bonney died in 1925.
             3. As a widow with two small children she was married once again to Martin Anaya, a man who knew how to work the cattle and the sheep of the big ranchers.
             4. Rudolfo Anaya was one of the three boys in a family of seven.
             5. Anaya leaned his storytelling techniques from his grandfather, Liborio Mares, who taught him how to read and write.
             6. When Anaya recalls his youth in New Mexico, there are not memories of pastoral youth and way of life or a rigid ethnic culture, but memories of a place which brought many ethnicities together to mold and become one person.
             7. He graduated high school in 1956 and attended the University of New Mexico.
             8. In college he and the other Mexican students accepted the attitude of intended failure that was placed on them, but decided to strive above and beyond of that which was expected. In 63 he got his bachelors and in 68 he got his masters, both in English.
             9. He married Patricia Ann Lawless in 1966.
             B. Evens in Anaya's life which impacted his writing-
             1. His mother's family had come from Mexico and settled in the Puerto de Luna Valley, next to the Pecos River and below Santa Rosa.
             2. His father's side had roots in the pre-United States h
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