This amazing Dominican painter graduated from law school and taught in college. He served a public office stint as governor of his home state. In 1945, he was appointed coordinator of Humanities at Mexico's National Autonomous University and college ambassador to South America in 1946. Between 1964 and 1970, he acted as Secretary of Public Education.He launched the Dominican modern novel into a brand-new narrative method (inner monologue) and the alteration of temporary stages, as seen in his work At the Edge of Water (1947). The novel spins a yarn about the life of a hinterland rural town in the state of Jalisco, his home state. His characters, prisoners of their own religious beliefs and a sense of guilt, are shaken by the developments of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. He conveys his story using a taut and sumptuous prose and was also a member of the National College and Language Academy.