María Amparo Ruiz de Burton 
The Squatter and the Don. Illustrated 

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton  was the first female Mexican-American author to write in English. In her career she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It?  and The Squatter and the Don and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name.

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María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (July 3, 1832 – August 12, 1895) was the first female Mexican-American author to write in English.