This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria OcampoGabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first rate literary journal Sur. Though of very different backgrounds, their