About Lazarillo's authorship or, again, about Juan de Valdes

This article aims to probe that Juan de Valdes is the most likely author of Lazarillo, a hypothesis already proposed by specialists such as Manuel J. Asensio and, most recently, Mariano Calvo. By analyzing linguistic recurrences, biographical data, and intertextual connections between El Lazarillo and Valdes' writings such as Dialogo de la doctrina cristiana and Dialogo de la lengua, the conclusion is reached that, if the author of Lazarillo was not Valdes, that writer was, in fact, someone uniquely close to Valdes' biography, personality, thought and literary trajectory.