Francisco González Crussí. Born in Mexico City in 1936, he graduated from UNAM, specializing in pediatric pathology. He is a professor emeritus at Northwestern University, where he taught for more than three decades. He has been a Guggenheim Foundation fellow and has won numerous awards, including the Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Essay Prize from the Mexican Academy of Language. He is the author of dozens of academic articles and numerous literary essays, many of which have been compiled in volumes published by FCE: Notes of an Anatomist (1990), See (2010), and Remedies of Antaño (2012); Verdehalago: Day of the Dead and Other Reflections on Death (1997), and On the Nature of Erotic Things (1999); and the University of Veracruz: Tripas lleva corazón (2012). Debate: The Face and the Soul (2014), The Sickness of Love (2016), and The Folias of Sex (2020), and the Mexican Academy of Language: The Imponderable Body (2020). In 2021, Grano de Sal published Beyond the Body: Essays on Corporeality.