Pedro J. Labarthe Explained
Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria (21 June 1905 - March 1966[2]) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist.[3]
Birth place, training and life
Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1905.[4] He moved from Puerto Rico to New York City to study at Columbia University as an adult. He earned professional success and embraced the American way of life,[5] and subsequently wrote various books and essays documenting the experiences of the Puerto Rican migration to New York.
Books
The following are books written by Labarthe:[6]
- The Son of Two Nations: The Private Life of a Columbia Student. (1931)
- Spanish; Castilian: Antología de Poetas Contemporaneos de Puerto Rico. (1946)
- Mary Smith. (1958)
- Pueblo: Golgota del Espiritu. (1938)
See also
References
- Armando Torres León. Los Municipios de Puerto Rico y Su Historia y Su Cultura: PONCE, La Perla del Sur. Santurce, Puerto Rico: Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico. Programa Regular de Educación. Programa Editorial. Celeste Benitez, Secretaria de Educación. 1992. p. 155.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=4v3b60QzUPQC&pg=PA542 The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: The twentieth century. Ed. by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker
- http://www.visitponce.com/culturaIlustres.aspx Ponceños Ilustres. Municipality of Ponce.
- Web site: InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico . 2010-06-02 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040914081905/http://www.sg.inter.edu/lisc/autores/pr.html . 14 September 2004 . .
- http://web2.adfl.org/ade/bulletin/n091/091056.htm The Literature of the Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. By Edna Acosta-Belen. In ADE Bulletin. (Vol. 091 (Winter 1988), Pages 56-62)
- http://execdailybrief.com/titleLists/h6a-coverage.xls Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1.
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