Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a novelist, short story writer, journalist, critic, and screenwriter, has had international recognition for many years. He is included among the group of South American writers who rose to prominence during the 1960s, a time often referred to as the “boom” of Latin American Literature. In his short stories and novels, Leaf Storm, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and The Autumn of the Patriarch, he utilizes his …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…books more interesting. For these reasons the critics praise him and he remains popular. Bibliography “Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. “Gabriel Garcia Marquez .” The Groiler Library of International Biographies. New York: The Philip Leif Group Inc, 1996. “Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” Discovering Authors Modules. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Chronicle of A Death Foretold. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1982. Minta, Stephen. Garcia Marquez: Writer of Columbia. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.