ABOUT THE AUTHORGabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studiedat the National University of Colombia at Bogotá and later worked as a reporterfor the Colombian newspaperEl Espectadorand as a foreign correspondent inRome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of severalnovels and collections of stories, includingEyes of a Blue Dog(1947),LeafStorm(1955),No One Writes to the Colonel(1958),In Evil Hour(1962),BigMama’s Funeral(1962),One Hundred Years of Solitude(1967),InnocentEréndira and Other Stories(1972),The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975),Chronicle of a Death Foretold(1981),Love in the Time of Cholera(1985),TheGeneral in His Labyrinth(1989),Strange Pilgrims(1992),Of Love and OtherDemons(1994) andMemories of My Melancholy Whores(2005). Many of hisbooks are published by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literaturein 1982. Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014.