Gerald Martin's biography of Colombian writer Gabriel Garci a M rquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, is so terrific, it makes a reviewer want to lurk around bookstores, urging ...

Until that point Martin had called this project only a “tolerated biography.” It has turned out to be much, much more. This intensive, assured, penetratingly analytical book will be the ...

That proved to be a challenge for Gerald Martin, who has spent the past 17 years working on the just published biography, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most widely ...

Life: Studied law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá and the University of Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, working in Cartagena ...

And it is also as close as one could get to a perfect book," says Ilan Stavans, who wrote a biography of the author's early years, including the time Garcia Marquez spent as a newspaper journalist.

This post is in partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A version of the article below was originally published on the Ransom Center’s Cultural Compass blog.

But the film nonetheless may have served as a turning point for the author. In his 2009 biography, “Gabriel García Márquez: A Life,” Gerald Martin writes that the experience of making ...

When Gerald Martin, around the middle of his rich and resourceful biography, starts to tell this story, the reader may be a little surprised, even disappointed. “He had not been driving long tha ...

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. (Wikipedia) ...