Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was born in 1651 in Mexico State.
She learned to read and write when she was 3 years old.
Native people taught her Nahuatl (a native Mexican language).
With Nahuatl, she wrote part of her literature.
Since she was a child, she was a regular reader.
When she was 15 years old, she was accepted in the court of Viceroy Antonio de Toledo y Salazar.
There, she learned Latin in just 20 lessons.
When she was 17 years old, she was studying physics, biology, mathematics, and chemistry.
Her first book was published under the title "Inundación castálida".
Her most famous and controversial poem was "Primero Sueño."
Currently, she is the inspiration for the delivery of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz award and other recognitions.
She died on April 17, 1695, as a victim of typhus.
She is known as The tenth muse, the Phoenix of Mexico and the Phoenix of America.
Sor Juana assembled a library with more than four thousand volumes and acquired knowledge of theology, astronomy, paintings, languages, phil
One of her most famous phrases is "I do not study to know more but to ignore less."