Luisita lopez torregrosa biography

Luisita López Torregrosa (born in 1943) is a Puerto Rican journalist, book author, editor, freelance writer, and professor.
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa is an editor at the New York Times.
Journalist, book author, editor, freelance writer, professor.

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Luisita Lopez Torregrosa author biography, plus links to books by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa.

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

Luisita López Torregrosa is the author of The Noise of Infinite Longing and was an editor at the New York Times. As a special correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle she reported firsthand on the coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino, the communist insurgency in the Philippines, and the protests in South Korea that led to the fall of authoritarian rule. Her articles also have appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue.

This biography was last updated on 08/07/2012.

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Luisita Lopez Torregrosa is an editor at the New York Times. Her articles have appeared in the Times, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler and Vogue. She lives in New York City

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This is a memoir that reads like a novel, and that's both a good and bad thing. Torregrosa has a sinuous, vague, slippery style of writing that I love in a good novel (I was reminded a bit of early '90s Jeannette Winterson) but feels a bit incomplete in a memoir. This story of 'love and revolution' had plenty of revolution -- on an international and interpersonal scale -- but I felt a real lack of love in Torregrosa's narrative.

Which leads me back to my original complaint. Were this a novel show more -- with some exploration into the motivations of our two heroines -- I would be all over this. But as a memoir, I wanted more from Torregrosa: I wanted her to go

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Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

Puerto Rican author and journalist

Luisita López Torregrosa
Born	1943 Puerto Rico
Occupation	author, journalist
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Notable works	The Noise of Infinite Longing Before the Rain

Luisita López Torregrosa (born in 1943) is a Puerto Rican journalist, book author, editor, freelance writer, and professor.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] She has reported from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. She has lived in Manila, Tokyo, and the United States. She is the author of The Noise of Infinite Longing,^[6]^[7] published by Rayo/HarperCollins in 2004, and Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution,^[8] which was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012 and nominated for best lesbian memoir at the 25th Lambda Literary Awards.

Life

Luisita López Torregrosa is the daughter of Amaury López, who was a doctor, and of María Luisa Torregrosa, who was a beauty contest winner, lawyer