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Anselmo Suárez y Romero (c. 1818 – 1878) was a Cuban writer and novelist, better known for the first novel in Spanish about slavery in the Americas: Francisco, based largely on "Autobiografía de un esclavo" by Juan Francisco Manzano (1835), the first autobiography written in Spanish by a slave.
Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish language title: Vivir para contarla) is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003.
Leonor López de Córdoba y Carrillo (Calatayud, ca. 1362-1363 Córdoba, July 1430) wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Castilian, titled Memorias by one of its editors, after being banished from the Castilian Court where she was an advisor and confidant of Queen Catalina of Castile, wife of King Henry III.
Portrait attributed to Juan van der Hamen, c.1626. Antonio de Erauso, born as Catalina de Erauso (in Spanish) (San Sebastián, Spain, 1585 or 1592 [1] — Cuetlaxtla near Orizaba, New Spain, 1650), [2] also went by Alonso Díaz and some other masculine names, later taking on the name Antonio de Erauso which he went by for the remainder of his life.
Luis de Carvajal the Younger (Spanish: Luis de Carvajal el Mozo, c. 1566 – 8 December 1596) was a Spanish-born Crypto-Jewish writer. He was the nephew of the conquistador Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, who was the governor of New Mexico, and was brought to Mexico at a young age. In Mexico, he began to practice Judaism in secret alongside his ...
Pedro Almodóvar's first book, "The Last Dream," is out Sept. 24. "My stories and movies are all mixed together in a kind of indivisible manner," he says.
Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400.Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.. An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights.
Gabriel José García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ⓘ; [a] 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.