Limón attended Hammel Street School, St. Alphonsus School, and Bishop Conaty High School for Girls. An avid reader since the early years of elementary school, she was particularly attracted in her childhood to history books and narratives about heroic women such as Joan of Arc. She loved school, especially high school, but despite the encouragement of a sister of the Immaculate Heart Order who told Limón she was college material, she was tracked in vocational courses in high school and after graduation was placed, with the school's help, as a stenographer at a stock brokerage. In her immigrant family it was inconceivable that a daughter would think about higher education.
Limón saved her money and put herself through college and graduate school, graduating from Marymount College, Palos Verdes, with a B.A. in Spanish literature in 1965. She received an M.A. in the same field from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City in 1969 and began teaching at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In 1975 she received a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of California at Los Angeles with a dissertation on the work of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, whom she interviewed in Mexico in 1973.
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