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Pedro J Labarthe

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Nationality
  
Puerto Rican

Education
  
Columbia University

Died
  
March 1966

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Pedro Labarthe


Occupation
  
poet, journalist, novelist, and essayist

Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria (June 21, 1905 – March 1966) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist.

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Birth place, training and life

Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1905. As an adult he moved from Puerto Rico to New York City to study at Columbia University. He earned professional success and embraced the American way of life, 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)
  • Antología de Poetas Contemporaneos de Puerto Rico. (1946)
  • Mary Smith. (1958)
  • Pueblo: Golgota del Espiritu. (1938)
  • References

    Pedro J. Labarthe Wikipedia