Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogot¿ and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog(1947), Leaf Storm(1955), No One Writes to the Colonel(1958), In Evil Hour(1962), Big Mama's Funeral(1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude(1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories(1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold(1981), Love in the Time of Cholera(1985), The General in His