Gabriel García Márquez : a life
/ by Gerald Martin
- 1st U.S. ed
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2009.
- xxiii, 642 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-620) and index.
The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Mrquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature.