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Mary Elizabeth Victoria Borton de Treviño was an American author.
Elizabeth was born in Bakersfield, California, the daughter of attorney Fred Ellsworth Borton and Carrie Louise Christensen. Her family were all enthusiastic readers; Fred Borton had published short stories and poems before becoming a lawyer. Elizabeth always wanted to become an author. She began writing poetry at age six, and had her first published poem at eight. Her parents strongly encouraged her ambitions.
She attended Stanford University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in Latin American History. After finishing college, she moved to Massachusetts to study violin at the Boston Conservatory, and then worked as a reporter.
On her marriage on August 10, 1935, to Luis Treviño Arreola y Gómez Sánchez de la Barquera, she moved to his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico. They had two sons, Luis Federico Treviño-Borton and Enrique Ricardo Treviño-Borton. After their sons were born, they lived in Monterrey for a time, then moved to Mexico City in 1941. In 1965, they made a final move to Cuernavaca, Morelos, known popularly as the "City of Eternal Spring"
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