Salvador Novo López (Mexico City, July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a poet, playwright, chronicler, and historian. He is considered a founder of the modern temperament in Mexican literature. With an avant-garde, acid and sophisticated style, Novo published more than 20 books throughout his life, and was openly homosexual despite the social stigma of the time. Together with Xavier Villaurrutia, he founded the magazine and the experimental theater Ulises in 1927, which led to the arrival of avant-garde theater in Mexico and brought together the main members of the group Los Contemporáneos, the title of the next magazine that Novo and Villaurrutia founded in 1928.