THE AUTHOR
Paul Alexander Bartlett was a writer and artist, born in Moberly,Missouri, and educated at Oberlin College, the University of Arizona,the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Instituto de BellasArtes in Guadalajara. His work can be divided into three categories: Heis the author of many novels, short stories, and poems; second, as afine artist, his drawings, illustrations, and paintings have beenexhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading galleries, includingthe Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the BancroftLibrary, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, theInstituto-Mexicano-Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many othergalleries; and, third, he devoted much of his life to the mostcomprehensive study of the haciendas of Mexico that has been undertaken.
350 of his pen-and-ink illustrations of the haciendas and more than1,000 hacienda photographs make up the Paul Alexander BartlettCollection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection ofthe University of Texas, and form part of a second diversifiedcollection held by the American Heritage Center of the University ofWyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett's literary work,fine art, and letters. A third archive consisting primarily ofBartlett's literary work is held by the Department of SpecialCollections at UCLA.
Paul Alexander Bartlett's fiction has been commended by many authors,among them Pearl Buck, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, JamesMichener, Upton Sinclair, Evelyn Eaton, and many others. He was therecipient of many grants, awards, and fellowships, from suchorganizations as the Leopold Schepp Foundation, the Edward MacDowellAssociation, the New School for Social Research, the HuntingtonHartford Foundation, the Montalvo Foundation, Yaddo, and the CarnegieFoundation.
His wife, Elizabeth Bartlett, a widely published and internationallycommended poet, is the author of seventeen published books of poetry,numerous poems, short stories, and essays in leading literaryquarterlies and anthologies, and, as the founder of Literary Olympics,Inc., is the editor of a series of multi-language volumes ofinternational poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporarypoets.
Their only child (me) inherited their writer's gene and has published anumber of books and articles in the fields of philosophy and psychology.
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See the following page for the map of the Hacienda de Petaca, where_When the Owl Cries_ takes place.
_Plan of the Hacienda Petaca, Colima, Mexico_]
When the Owl Cries