Anita Arroyo papers

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.