Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria (June 21, 1905 – March 1966) was a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rican people

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 poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist.

Birth place, training and life

Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico

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 in 1905. As an adult he moved from Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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 to New York

New York

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 to study at Columbia University

Columbia University

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. He earned professional success and embraced the American

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 way of life

Culture

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, and subsequently wrote various books and essays documenting the experiences of the Puerto Rican migration to New York.

Books by Labarthe López de Victoria

The following are books written by Labarthe:

• The Son of Two Nations: The Private Life of a Columbia Student. (1931)
• . (1946)
• Mary Smith. (1958)
• Pueblo: Golgota del Espiritu. (1938)

External links

• Mention of Pedro J. Labarthe's lifespan

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans