About
Cuban author, poet, Afro-Cuban anthropologist and activist who wrote the 1954 work El Monte.
Before Fame
She moved to Paris in 1927 and lived there for eleven years while studying art.
Trivia
She wrote several works on the secretive Abakua sect, an Afro-Cuban religious group.
Family Life
She was one of eight children born to a wealthy, socially prominent Havana family.
Associated With
She left her native country following Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution and lived in Spain and Florida.
