Gabriel Garcia Marquez  (English, Paperback, Martin Gerald S.)

Gabriel García Márquez: A Life is Gerald Martin's authoritative biography of the Nobel Prize winning Columbian writer.

Summary of the Book

Gabriel García Márquez has become one of the literary juggernauts of the last few decades. In this seminal work, Gerald Martin tries to throw light on the events that formed the man and how he has moved from the backwaters of Columbia to a journalist and eventually to the literary genius he has become. The book includes never-before-seen photographs and excerpts from interviews from people who have known the writer best, to try and understand the struggles the man has gone through in his journey of words. As gripping as Gabriel García Márquez’s own journalism, this book also collects exclusive interviews that Gerald Martin held with the writer himself, and reveals the man behind the words.

About Gerald Martin

Gerald Martin is a critic of Latin American fiction, known best for his association with the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez.

Martin completed his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh and was a principal player in establishing the Latin American Studies programme at the University of Portsmouth. He has also taught for a long time at the University of Pittsburgh as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages in the Hispanic Studies Department. He has also written: Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century, and Miguel Ángel Asturias: El Señor Presidente.