Edited by Angel Flores

Selected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the NY Public Library

This distinguished reference work delivers biographical sketches along with extensive bibliographies for more than 337 of the most significant novelists and poets of twentieth-century Latin America, including many born after 1950.

Through the profiles of such writers as Mariano Azuela, Isabel Allende, Julia de Burgos, Haroldo Conti, Eduardo Galeano, and many others, emerges a panorama of Spanish American history and literature in a turbulent century: the Mexican revolution, Argentina’s "dirty war," the Cuban revolution, the Mexican student uprising of 1968, the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and much more.

Spanish American Authors includes coverage of Nobel Laureates Gabriela Mistral, Miguel Angel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, as well as other important writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Alejo Carpentier, Marta Traba, Luisa Valenzuela, and Eraclio Zepeda.

Arranged alphabetically, each entry in Spanish American Authors contains biographical data, literary analysis, and, in many cases, autobiographical passages. The bibliographies that accompany each profile provide a comprehensive listing of each writer’s work—in Spanish and English—and include extensive critical sources as well.

◘ 915 pp.
◘ 1992

◘ Covers 337 significant novelists

◘ ISBN 0-8242-0806-4
◘ $190
◘ $205 (outside U.S. and Canada)