A Golden Age poet and prose writer born Sept. 17, 1580 in Madrid, Quevedo was the son of noble parents.

A poet and playwright, Alberti was born in 1902 in the Spanish port city of El Puerto de Santa Maria, near Cádiz (Spain). During the 1936-1939 civil war he became a political activist and headed several Communist-oriented magazines.

Campayo is a Spanish writer and memory trainer who was born in Albacete in 1965. He possesses perhaps the fastest memory of all time, a talent evidenced by several world records he holds.

Psychologist Walter Riso is one of the most popular Latin American authors on the subject of personal growth, with more than one million copies sold.

Born in Mexico City in 1965.

Rivas studied law and journalism and has worked in radio, television and print journalism.

Born in Santiago, Chile in 1953. Bolaño was one of Latin America’s foremost contemporary authors. He lived a nomadic existence in his youth, living at different times in Chile, Mexico (working there as a journalist at age 15), El Salvador, France and Spain.

A writer born in Lima, Peru in 1975.

Rocangliolo has published the novels Pudor and El príncipe de los caimanes, as well as the book of short stories Crecer es un oficio triste.

A Nicaraguan poet born in 1867, Ruben Darío is remembered as the father of modernismo and a key figure in the revival of Spanish-language literature in the 19up>th century.

Born in Barcelona in 1964, Ruiz Zafon worked in advertising for several years before relocating to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter and launch his literary career.

Juan Rulfo was born in the western Mexican state of Jalisco on May 16, 1917 and died Jan. 7, 1986 in Mexico City.