List of Cuban American writers
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- Iván Acosta, playwright, works include El SuperEl SuperEl Súper is a 1979 Spanish-language comedy-drama film directed by Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal, based on a stage play by Iván Acosta. The film is a look at life in the U.S. from the perspective of frustrated Cuban exiles.-Plot summary:...
(movie version 1979) and Un cubiche en la luna (1989) - Mercedes de AcostaMercedes de AcostaMercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and socialite, best known for her numerous lesbian affairs with Hollywood personalities including Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Alla Nazimova, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Ona Munson, Adele Astaire and, allegedly,...
- Reinaldo ArenasReinaldo ArenasReinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.- Life :...
- Octavio Armand, poet
- Joaquín Badajoz, poet, author, essayist (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, fellow member)
- Ruth BeharRuth BeharRuth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University...
- Lourdes Casal, poet
- Migdia Chinea-Varela
- Jennine Capó Crucet
- Nilo CruzNilo CruzNilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored.-Early years:...
- Carmen Agra DeedyCarmen Agra DeedyCarmen Agra Deedy is an internationally known, award winning author of children’s literature, storyteller and radio contributor. Born in Havana, Cuba, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 after the Cuban Revolution...
- Miguel A. De La TorreMiguel A. De La TorreMiguel A. De La Torre is a professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology, a religious scholar, author, and an ordained minister.-Biography:...
- Carlos EireCarlos EireCarlos M. N. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe.- Career :Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, he taught at St...
- Frank FernándezFrank FernándezFrank Fernández is a Cuban anarchist author. He is an exiled member of the Movimiento Libertario Cubano and was the editor of its periodical Guángara Libertaria...
- Roberto G. FernándezRoberto G. FernándezRoberto G. Fernández is a Cuban American novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his grotesque satires of the Cuban American community, especially in his English-language novels, Raining Backwards and Holy Radishes! He is currently the Dorothy Lois Breen Hoffman Professor of Modern...
- Sean Ferrer, author (son of actors Audrey HepburnAudrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
and Mel FerrerMel FerrerMel Ferrer was an American actor, film director and film producer.-Early life:Ferrer was born Melchor Gastón Ferrer in Elberon, New Jersey, of Catalan and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer , was born in Cuba, was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St....
) - María Irene FornésMaría Irene FornésMaría Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornes themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Obie Award for Promenade and her second for The Successful...
- Paula FoxPaula FoxPaula Fox is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008.Her...
- Cristina GarcíaCristina GarcíaCristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, she turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban , received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award...
- Carolina Garcia-AguileraCarolina Garcia-AguileraCarolina Garcia-Aguilera is a Cuban-born American writer. She has written a series of mystery stories, and two novels.She was born in Havana, Cuba in July 1949. In 1960, she emigrated to the United States, living in Palm Beach, Florida, and then New York City...
- Celedonio González, novelist; works include Los primos (1971) and Los cuatro embajadores (1973)
- Evelio Grillo
- Juan Gerardo Hernandez, author ( books Cuban, That's All and More Cuban, That's All)
- Oscar HijuelosOscar HijuelosOscar Jerome Hijuelos is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.- Early life and career :...
- Robert Lima, poet, playwright and literary critic; grandson of Cuban patriot Col. Alfredo Lima Tardiff
- Eduardo MachadoEduardo MachadoEduardo Oscar Machado is a Cuban playwright living in the United States. Notable plays include Broken Eggs and Havana is Waiting and The Cook. Many of his plays are autobiographical or deal with Cuba in some way. Machado teaches playwriting at New York University. He has served as the Artistic...
- Luisa Marina Perdigó, poet, literary critic, professor
- Alex AbellaAlex AbellaAlex Abella is an American author and journalist best known for his non-fiction works Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire and Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States .-Early life:Abella was born in Cuba in 1950...
, mystery/crime novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist - José MartíJosé MartíJosé Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban...
- Pablo Medina, poet
- Ana MenéndezAna Menéndez-Early life:Menéndez was born to Cuban exile parents who fled to Los Angeles, California in 1964. Menéndez's parents expected to return to Cuba at any time and prepared their children for this eventuality. As a result, Menéndez spoke only Spanish until she enrolled in kindergarten. The family...
- Matías Montes Huidobro, novelist; works include Desterrados al fuego (1975)
- Elías Miguel Muñoz, poet and novelist, author of Crazy Love (1988) and The Greatest Performance (1991), as well as works in Spanish
- Anaïs NinAnaïs NinAnaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories...
- Lino Novás Calvo, novelist; works include Maneras de contar (1970)
- Achy ObejasAchy ObejasAchy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba...
- Dolores Prida, playwright; English-language works include those collected in Beautiful Señoritas and Other Plays (1991)
- Jorge ReyesJorge ReyesJorge Reyes is a Cuban-born, American author known for authoring books in several genres. He is an honor graduate of Barry University, from which he received a B.A...
- Andrés Rivero
- Isel Rivero, poet
- Antonio SacreAntonio SacreAntonio Sacre is an American bilingual storyteller, author and performance artist. Born in Boston to an Irish American mother and Cuban father, he now is based in Los Angeles and performs in both English and Spanish....
- José Sánchez-Boudy, poet
- Armando Simon, playwright, short-story writer, scientist
- Virgil SuárezVirgil SuárezVirgil Suárez is a Cuban American poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for such novels as Latin Jazz and Going Under....
- Piri ThomasPiri ThomasPiri Thomas was a writer and poet whose autobiography Down These Mean Streets became a best-seller.-Early years:...
- Omar Torres, novelist; works include Apenas un bolero (1981), Al partir (novel) (1986), and Fallen Angels Sing (1991)
- Carmelita TropicanaCarmelita TropicanaAlina Troyano , better known as Carmelita Tropicana, is a Cuban-American stage and film actress.-References:* * -External links:...
- Alisa Valdes-RodriguezAlisa Valdes-RodriguezAlisa Valdes-Rodriguez is an American writer known for her novels in the Chick Lit genre.-Early life:Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her father, Nelson Valdés, is a retired sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and emigrated from Cuba in the early 1960s...
- Charlie VázquezCharlie VázquezCharlie Vázquez is a Bronx born-and-raised, self-identified queer American artist, writer, and musician of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. He is also the editor of Fireking Press, where he has published a novel and a book of short stories. His fiction, erotica and essays have appeared in a number...
- José YglesiasJose YglesiasJose Yglesias was an American novelist and journalist.-Biography:Yglesias was born in the Ybor City section of Tampa, Florida, and was of Cuban and Spanish descent. His father was from Galicia. He moved to New York City in 1937 and served in the United States Navy during World War II...
- Julie De Grandy
See also
- List of Cuban Americans
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus FoundationBefore Columbus FoundationThe Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, Victor Hernández Cruz, Shawn Wong and Rudolfo Anaya to be "a multi-ethnic organizing dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America," especially through the promotion of multicultural writers.One of...
Julie De Grandy
External references
- Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.