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How A 19th Century Cuban Immigrant Became A Countess And Author
Most of us recognize certain names throughout Latin American and U.S. Latino history – Simon Bolívar, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, Roberto Clemente or Gabriel García Márquez, to name just a few. Then there is María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo. Never heard of her? Exactly. Author Alina García Lapuerta is on a quest to change that with her new book, La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid and Paris, the first English-language biography of Cuba's first female published author, a socialite and singer who became a big star in 19th-century Paris. Her notable life is also an immigrant success story that resonates with so many of us today, said the book's author.
“I found out about her looking through one of those beautiful coffee table books at a bookstore in Coral Gables, Florida,” said García Lapuerta, a former investment banker who graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “She was quoted in there
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About the author
Ada Ferrer
I am Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton, I taught in the History Department and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University from 1995 to 2024.
My Pulitzer Prize-winningCuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021) is a sweeping history of more than five hundred years of Cuban history, written in rousing and accessible prose and based on more than thirty years of travel to and research on the island. My first book,Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, was a history of the Cuban independence movement against Spain and the central role of slavery and race in its unfolding. The book won the 2000 Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history. My second book, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, explored the pivotal role of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba. It won the Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University, as well as multiple prizes from the
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Cristina García (novelist)
American novelist and playwright (born 1958)
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| Born | (1958-07-04) July 4, 1958 (age 66) Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Dreaming in Cuban |
| Notable awards | National Book Award nomination |
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Cristina García (born July 4, 1958) is a Cuban-born American novelist and playwright. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), was a finalist for the National Book Award.[1] She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her other novels include, A Handbook to Luck (2007); The Lady Matador's Hotel (2010); King of Cuba (2013); Here in Berlin (2017); and Vanishing Maps (2023).
Garcia has taught at universities nationwide, including UCLA; UC Riverside; Mills College; University of San Francisco; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of Texas-Austin; and Texas State University-San Marc
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