Laura Esquivel was born on September 30, 1950, in Mexico City, Mexico, to Julio César Esquivel and Josefa Valdés. In addition to being a novelist, Esquivel also taught kindergarten and wrote screenplays for children's television in her native Mexico. She is one of four children.
Esquivel's most noted work is the novel and cookbook Like Water for Chocolate, which details the life of the De la Garza family during the Mexican Revolution. Similar to Isabel Allende's works, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate uses magical realism to depict a realistic yet fantastical world. Esquivel's other works also focus on Mexico and women. Frequently, her works blend two separate genres. For...
