Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6th, 1928, in a small town called Aracataca, in Colombia. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, but he knew his real parents. He was one of sixteen children. His grandfather was Colonel Nicolas Ricardo Marquez Mejia. He was a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days, and a Colonel of the Civil War. Gabriel Marquez often used the lessons his grandfather taught him when he was younger, in his books. His grandmother was Tranquilina Iguaran Cotes. She was very superstitious and told Gabriel that there were ghosts in their house, which he also wrote about in his books. Gabriel's father was a telegraph operator named Gabriel Eligio Garcia. He had a reputation of being promiscuous and was the father of four children. He was also a former medical student. But, because his parents were poor, his grandparents raised him. When he was 8 years old, his grandfather died, so he had to go live with his parents in Sucre because his grandmother was going blind. While he was living with his parents, his father got a job at a pharmacy to raise some money to help take care of his family. Gabriel went to a boarding school in Barranquilla, and was known as a shy boy that wrote funny poems an
When Gabriel was still in college, he met his future wife, Mercedes Barcha Pardo. She was only thirteen when they met, he was eighteen. When he quit his job to travel, he got engaged to Mercedes. When they were married, they moved to Caracas because Gabriel had gotten a job there. When he quit, they moved to a city called Havana. In 1959, they had a son which they named Rodrigo. That same year, they moved to New York City and later moved to Mexico City. In 1961, he had another son named Gonzalo. studied Law, because that's what his parents wanted him to do. He came to realize that he really didn't want to study law anymore, so he quit to work as a journalist. He moved to Barranquilla, the town where his boarding school was, and got his first journalist job and wrote fiction when he got bored. The book by Franz Kafka, called "The Metamorphosis" got him motivated to write more. His first story was published in 1946, by the Liberal Bogota Newspaper. It was called "The Third Resignation." Even though he was near poverty, he was happy; he had a good job for a newspaper, he worked on his fiction books, and was able to hang out with his friends. But then he quit his job because he wanted to travel. During his life, he traveled to many places, such as, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Paris, Barranquilla, New York,
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Approximate Word count = 893
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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