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Gregorio Fuentes was a Cuban fisherman and the first mate of Ernest Hemingway's boat Pilar. He was born in Lanzarote, Spain, and died in Cojimar, Cuba, in 2002.
A Mexican writer known for his best work A Letter to God and his depictions of the Mexican Revolution. He was one of the first recipients of the National Prize for Arts Mexico and a contemporary of Mariano Azuela and Martín Luis Guzmán.
Gregorio López y Fuentes was a novelist who was one of the most important chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution and its effects. In his youth he spent much time in his father’s general store, where he came in contact with the Indians, farmers, and labourers of the region, whose lives he would later.
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Learn about the life and works of Gregorio López y Fuentes, one of the leading chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution. Find his books, ratings, reviews, and similar authors on Goodreads.
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- December 10, 1966
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Gregorio López y Fuentes (b. 1892; d. 1966), Mexican novelist and journalist. As a young man, López fought in the Mexican Revolution. In the post-Revolution period, he began a distinguished career as a journalist at El Universal, becoming general editor of the newspaper in 1948 and serving in that capacity until the 1960s.
May 16, 2014 · Gregorio López y Fuentes (1897-1964) was a Mexican writer of novels, poetry, journalism and chronicles of the Mexican Revolution. He was a contemporary of the legendary Mexican novelists Mariano Azuela and Martín Luis Guzmán.
Jan 15, 2002 · Gregorio Fuentes, who skippered Ernest Hemingway’s fabled fishing boat, the Pilar, for more than 20 years and is said to have been the writer’s inspiration for the embattled fisherman in “The Old...
