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Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies

May 15, 2012 RSS Feed Print

One subject Fuentes always postponed was writing about himself.

"One puts off the biography like you put off death," he said. "To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone."

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Associated Press writers Marjorie Miller and E. Eduardo Castillo contributed to this report.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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