Best known as a dramatist, Elena Garro won the important Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 1963 for the novel Recollections of Things to Come. The interior world of the characters' memories of life in Ixtepec during the Cristero Rebellion of 1926-28 is narrated dramatically in poetic prose that makes considerable use of Aztec mythology in its creation of a myth of Mexican women. A choreographer, script writer, and journalist, Elena Garro was at one time married to the Mexican poet Octavio Paz.