Leonor Acevedo Suárez

Leonor Rita Acevedo Suárez (May 22, 1876 – July 8, 1975) was the mother of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, and a major figure in his life and work.

As her husband's sight deteriorated, she assisted him with his reading and dictation, services which she would later provide to her son as he succumbed to the same hereditary blindness.

Her output includes "The Woman Who Rode Away" by D. H. Lawrence, The Human Comedy by William Saroyan and Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, among other works.

Tomás Eloy Martínez writes that when Borges visited the University of Texas in Austin in 1961, his mother was eighty-five but appeared much younger; as she walked about on her son's arm, many students assumed she was the author's wife.

At her wake, a woman paid her respects and remarked, "Poor little Leonor, to die so close to turning a hundred.