Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria (21 June 1905 – March 1966The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: The twentieth century. Ed. by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist.Ponceños Ilustres. Municipality of Ponce.
Birth place, training and life Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1905.. He moved from Puerto Rico to New York City to study at Columbia University as an adult. He earned professional success and embraced the American way of life,The Literature of the Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. By Edna Acosta-Belen. In ADE Bulletin. (Vol. 091 (Winter 1988), Pages 56-62) and subsequently wrote various books and essays documenting the experiences of the Puerto Rican migration to New York.
Books 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)
See also
List of Puerto Ricans
References
External links Mention of Pedro J. Labarthe's lifespan