Author Archive: Alina Garcia-Lapuerta
How To Write a Nonfiction Proposal
We’ve all been there – you’ve been secretly scribbling away, researching, collecting interesting sources or articles, and googling like mad. Finally, one day you think, “Could I take my secret project and turn it into a real book? Would anyone want to publish it, or even read it?” In my particular case, I had yet […]
Publishing : Has anything changed since the 19th century?
While researching my new biography, La Belle Créole, I unexpectedly discovered the vibrant literary world of early nineteenth-century Paris. And surprisingly, that world was not that dissimilar from our own. My subject, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Countess Merlin – was a fascinating, multitalented woman. After a complex and tumultuous early life in Cuba and […]
La Belle Creole: Cuba’s earliest Female Author
Alina García-Lapuerta is the biographer of María de las Mercedes de Santa Cruz y Montalvo (often called La Belle Créole), Cuba’s earliest female author. What does writing a biography involve? We asked her. How do you decide to recreate someone’s life? What drives you down a path that twists and turns and often leads to dead […]
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