Erwin Kempton Mapes (9 June 1884 – 18 February 1961) was an American scholar of Spanish-American literature and Hispanist, renowned for his work on the Hispanic Modernists.
Born in Gilman, Illinois, Mapes received his bachelors from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1909.
[1] During his life he concentrated his study of literary criticism on Rubén Darío, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Modernism in Spanish-American literature.
He also published a few textbooks, such as Y va de cuento (1943), in collaboration with Juan López-Morillas [es] (who married his daughter Frances, who would become an important Spanish-English translator).
In 1958 he published a critical edition of Cuentos completos y otras narraciones of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera.