Josefina Ludmer was born in Cordoba. She was a CONICET researcher, a professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and a professor of Latin American literature at Yale University, of which she is now emeritus. In addition to The body of crime. A manual (1999), she has published One Hundred Years of Solitude. An interpretation (1972, 1985), Onetti. The processes of construction of the story (1977, republished by Eterna Cadencia in 2009), The gaucho genre. A treatise on the homeland (1988, 2000) and Here Latin America. A speculation (Eternal Cadence, 2010).