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Arroyo, Anita
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1914-1994
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Anita Arroyo de Hernandez was a journalist, professor, and historian born in Italy in 1914 to Cuban and Puerto Rican parents. She graduated from the University of Havana and worked as a journalist and was also a prominent writer for Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura. She left Cuba for Puerto Rico after criticizing the post-1959 Castro government in her column in the newspaper Diario de La Marina. She was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan.
She wrote a number of publications, including: Un deber ineludible (1942), Las artes industriales en Cuba: su historia y evolución desde las culturas precolombinas hasta nuestros días (1943), Razón y pasión de Sor Juana (1952), about the Mexican nun, Superación y aporte de la mujer norteamericana (1959). América en su literatura (1967), El pajaro de lata: Cuba para Sus niños (1973), Raíces al viento (1974), Narrativa hispanoamericana actual: América y sus problemas (1980), the children’s book El grillo gruñón (1984), El hombre palabra (1985), José Antonio Saco: Su Influencia En La Cultura y en Las Ideas Political De Cuba (Colección Cuba y sus jueces) (1989), Las pequeñas muertes (1992), a novel about living in exile, and Cuentos del caribe (1992.)
She died in Puerto Rico in 1994.
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Biographical note written by Kate Villa, 2020-2021 UGrow Fellow for Manuscripts and Archives Management.
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Anita Arroyo | Open Library
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Library Collection Search | Corning Museum of Glass (cmog.org)
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Anita Arroyo Archives - Cupus.org
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Connor, Olga. "El congreso por la libertad de la cultura." Nuevo Herald, El (Miami, FL), 1st ed., sec. Galeria, 27 Mar. 2013, p. 11D. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/1454E8546C1DD2C0.
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CONNOR, OLGA. "CINCUENTA AÑOS SIN LIBERTAD DE PRENSA." Nuevo Herald, El (Miami, FL), Final ed., sec. Galeria, 4 Jan. 2009, p. 1D. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/125F2A311D884D80.
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Editor Deportivo de El Nuevo Herald, FAUSTO MIRANDA. "MUERTOS Y HERIDOS, CRISOL!, VASCONCELOS EN ALERTA!." Nuevo Herald, El (Miami, FL), FINAL ed., sec. GALERIA, 1 Aug. 1992, p. 2E. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EB966AE74C1C1A1