A Note About The Author

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928.

He attended the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York.

The author of several novels and collections of stories-- including No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories,

In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and the internationally best-selling One Hundred Years of Solitude--he was awarded

the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.