Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, bia, in 1928.
He attehe Uy of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the bian neer El Espectador and as a fn correspo in Rome, Paris, Bara, Caracas, and New York.
The author of several novels and colles of stories-- including No One Writes to the el and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, I Eréndira and Other Stories,
In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, icle of a Death Foretold, and the iionally best-selling One Hundred Years of Solitude--he was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.