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This is a list of [[Puerto Rican literature|Puerto Rican literary]] figures, including [[poet]]s, [[novelist]]s, [[short story|short story authors]], and [[playwright]]s. It includes people who were born in [[Puerto Rico]], people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and long-term residents or immigrants who have made Puerto Rico their home and who are recognized for their literary work.
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==A==
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* [[Manuel Abreu Adorno]] (1955–1984), novelist<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Rafael Acevedo (writer)|Rafael Acevedo]] (born 1960), poet, playwright, fiction writer<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya]] (born 1965), writer, performer, and theater director<ref name=Rewriting>La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. [https://journals.openedition.org/hispanismes/17413 “Rewriting the ‘Great Puerto Rican Family’: Technology, Religion, Extrasensory Perception, Family Violence, and Sexuality in Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya’s The Faculties."] ''HispanismeS: Revue de la Societé des Hispanistes Français'' 20 (2022), retrieved January 8, 2023.</ref>
* [[Moisés Agosto Rosario]] (born 1965), poet and author<ref>listed in David William Foster, ed., ''Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook'', Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.</ref>
* [[Alfredo M. Aguayo]], educator and writer (1866–1948). Established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/ponce/index.htm |title=Ponce |publisher=Salonhogar.com |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Jack Agüeros]] (1934–2014), author, playwright, poet and translator<ref>[http://www.martinespada.net/Jack%20Agueros.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812021128/http://www.martinespada.net/Jack%20Agueros.htm |date=12 August 2009 |title=Jack Agüeros}}</ref>
* [[Miguel Algarín]] (1941–2020), poet, writer. Co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Poets Cafe]].<ref name="MA">{{cite web |url=http://miguelalgarin.com/ |title=miguelalgarin.com |publisher=miguelalgarin.com |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=8 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208133106/https://www.miguelalgarin.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Manuel A. Alonso]] (1822–1889), poet and author. Considered by many to be the first Puerto Rican writer of notable importance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topuertorico.org/culture/famousprA-C.shtml |title=Puerto Rico's Culture: Famous Puerto Ricans: A–C |publisher=Topuertorico.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329114815/http://www.topuertorico.org/culture/famousprA-C.shtml |archive-date=29 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Aldo Alvarez]], short-story writer<ref>{{cite web|author=Jarrett Walker |url=https://www.pifmagazine.com/2002/05/interview-with-aldo-alvarez/ |title=Interview With Aldo Alvarez |publisher=Pif Magazine |access-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[Silvia Álvarez Curbelo]] (born 1940), writer and historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edicionescallejon.com/autor.php5?aid=14 |title=Ediciones Callejón |publisher=Edicionescallejon.com |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707055912/http://www.edicionescallejon.com/autor.php5?aid=14 |archive-date=7 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[Joe Elvis Alway]] (1969-) is a Nuyorican playwright, social justice leader, educator, and award winner. Wrote "We Are The Whole Cast," "Sabor Nutcracker," "The Front Porch," "540 Southern Blvd.," and is the "Founder of Multicultural Arts Foundation." https://voyagestl.com/?post_type=interview&p=104961, https://www.bing.com/search?q=joe%20elvis%20alway&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=joe%20https://voyagestl.com/?post_type=interview&p=134753elvis%20alway&sc=12-15&sk=&cvid=20141FCD48F54824836390EB798188B0.
* [[Alba Ambert]], novelist. In 1996 Ambert became the first Hispanic author to win the Carey McWilliams Award for Multicultural Literature, presented by the Multicultural Review, for her novel ''A Perfect Silence''.<ref name="HF">"Hispanic Firsts", By; Nicolas Kanellos, publisher Visible Ink Press; {{ISBN|0-7876-0519-0}}; p. 40</ref>
* [[Marta Aponte Alsina]] (born 1945), storyteller, novelist and literary critic<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Pedro Aponte Vázquez|Pedro I. Aponte Vázquez]], historian, journalist, social scientist, professor and writer<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b2dnzu54ZEC&pg=PT431 |title=American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman –and the Shoot-out that Stopped it |first1= Stephen |last1= Hunter |first2=John |last2=Bainbridge |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2005 |access-date=22 October 2013|isbn=9780743281959 }} |page=Source Notes #27. Page 431. (Evidences notability)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/sci_fraud_4803.html |last=Starr |first=Douglas |title=Revisiting a 1930s Scandal, AACR to Rename a Prize," Science 300 (25 April 2003) |pages=573–574 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511051109/http://www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/sci_fraud_4803.html |archive-date=11 May 2013 }} A. C. Higgins. Science Fraud Database. SUNY at Albany. 2013. (Evidences Puerto Rican background.)</ref> Author of ''¡Yo Acuso! Tortura y Asesinato de Don Pedro Albizu Campos.'';<ref>(Bayamon, PR: Movimiento Ecumenico Nacional de Puerto Rico. 1985). Reprinted (Paperback. 1991)</ref> ''Pedro Albizu Campos: Su persecución por el F.B.I.'';<ref>(Publicaciones René, 1991. 77 pages)</ref> ''Crónica de un encubrimiento: Albizu Campos y el caso Rhoads.'';<ref>(San Juan: Publicaciones RENÉ, 1992) [co-authored with Gregorio Hernandez Rivera]</ref> ''Locura por decreto: El papel de Luis Muñoz Marín y José Trías Monge en el diagnóstico de locura de don Pedro Albizu Campos.'';<ref>(San Juan: Publicaciones RENÉ, 1994)</ref> ''El ataque Nacionalista a La Fortaleza'';<ref>Gregorio Hernández Rivera. Pedro I. Aponte Vázquez, editor. (Publisher: Publicaciones RENÉ. 1993. {{ISBN|978-1931702010}})</ref> ''The Unsolved Case of Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads: An Indictment.'';<ref>(Publisher, Publicaciones René. 2005. {{ISBN|1931702071}})</ref> ''Transición'' [short stories];<ref>(Publisher: Los Libros de la Iguana. 2010. 113 pages)</ref> ''La hacienda'';<ref>(Publisher: Publicaciones René. 2011. 42 pages)</ref> ''"Necator Americanus: O sobre la fisiología del caso Rhoads"''<ref>(Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, Vol. 43, Núm. 1, Febrero, 1982, pp. 117–142.)</ref>
* [[Delma S. Arrigoitia]], historian, author. Arrigoitia was the first person at the University of Puerto Rico to earn a master's degree in the field of history. In 2010, her book, ''Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barcelo, 1868–1938'', was recognized among the best in the category of "research and criticism" and awarded a first place prize by the [[Ateneo Puertorriqueño]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Best-books-recognized-by-Ateneo|title=Best Books Recognized by Ateneo  |access-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009105014/http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Best-books-recognized-by-Ateneo |archive-date=9 October 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Francisco Arriví]], writer, poet, and playwright. Arriví is known as "The Father of the Puerto Rican Theater".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biblioteca.uprh.edu/cultural/biografias/letra%20a/Francisco%20Arrivi.htm |title=Adiós al padre del teatro boricua  |access-date=2016-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214407/http://biblioteca.uprh.edu/cultural/biografias/letra%20a/Francisco%20Arrivi.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Rane Arroyo]], poet, playwright and scholar<ref>{{cite web|author=Robin Becker |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rane-arroyo |title=Rane Arroyo |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro]] (born 1970), award-winning Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and essayist
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==B–C==
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* [[Lefty (Manuel) Barreto]], novelist, author of the autobiography ''Nobody's Hero'' (1977)<ref name=Zimmerman>listed in Marc Zimmerman, ''U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography'', MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.</ref>
* [[Janette Becerra]], short-story writer, poet, professor, literary critic, and lawyer. Author of ''Doce versiones de soledad'', ''Elusiones'', and ''Antrópolis''.
* [[Emilio S. Belaval]], short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and lawyer<ref name="PRE">{{cite web |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09121704 |title=Language and Literature: Belaval Maldonado Emilio S |publisher=Enciclopediapr.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313001112/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09121704 |archive-date=13 March 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Pura Belpré]], author. First Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.<ref>"Pura Belpré: The Children's Ambassador". In Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, ''Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 148–157</ref>
* [[Samuel Beniquez]], author of the autobiographical book entitled ''Tu alto precio... Mi gran valor''.<ref>{{cite web |title=First page of the newspaper "Primera Hora" of Puerto Rico and subsequent pages 2 through 4. Edition of January 20, 2012 |url=http://www.primerahora.com/pruebadeadnparalidermita-604429.html |publisher=Primerahora.com}}</ref>
* [[María Bibiana Benítez]], playwright. Benitez is one of Puerto Rico's first woman poets.<ref name="MVC">{{cite web |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08112102 |title=Language and Literature: Benítez, María Bibiana |publisher=Enciclopediapr.org |date=17 January 2010 |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233048/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08112102 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier]], poet. Benítez de Gautier's collaboration with the "Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño" (Collection of Puerto Rican Poetry) gave her recognition as a great poet.<ref name="AL">{{Cite web |url=http://artesliberales.bc.inter.edu/jquintana/TodoWeb/Todo%20PR/Biograf%EDas/Bb.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 March 2012 |archive-date=20 August 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030820120730/http://artesliberales.bc.inter.edu/jquintana/TodoWeb/Todo%20PR/Biograf%EDas/Bb.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Tomás Blanco (writer)|Tomás Blanco]], writer and historian. Blanco was the author of "Prontuario Historico de Puerto Rico" and "El Prejuicio Racial en Puerto Rico" (Racial Prejudice in Puerto Rico).<ref name="ENDI"/>
* [[Juan Boria]], Afro-Caribbean poet. Boria, also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh, was a poet known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/j_bios/JuanBoria.shtml |title=Juan Boria |publisher=Prpop.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913185902/http://www.prpop.org/biografias/j_bios/JuanBoria.shtml |archive-date=13 September 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Gerson Borrero]], journalist, radio host and TV commentator in New York City. He has been editor-at-large of City & State NY and editor-in-chief of [[El Diario/La Prensa]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/opinion/podcast-gerson-borrero-reveals-cuomos-new-secretary-of-state.html|title=Podcast: Gerson Borrero reveals Cuomo's new Secretary of State|date=3 February 2016|website=CSNY|access-date=16 February 2018|archive-date=16 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216210119/https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/opinion/podcast-gerson-borrero-reveals-cuomos-new-secretary-of-state.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Giannina Braschi]], author of postmodern political philosophy, poetry, fiction, and drama. Wrote the first full-length Spanglish novel. Titles: ''[[Yo-Yo Boing!]]'', ''Empire of Dreams'', and ''[[United States of Banana]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/giannina_braschi |title=Giannina Braschi &#124; National Book Festival – Library of Congress |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref><ref>''The Review of Contemporary Fiction'', Review of Giannina Braschi's ''Yo-Yo Boing'', by David William Foster, 1999.</ref>
* [[Julia de Burgos]], one of the greatest poets to have been born in Puerto Rico; author of "Yo misma fui mi ruta" and "Poema Río Grande de Loíza".<ref>{{cite web|author=John K |url=https://jstheater.blogspot.com/2005/04/poem-julia-de-burgoss-to-julia-de.html |title=J'S THEATER: Poem: Julia de Burgos's "To Julia de Burgos" |publisher=Jstheater.blogspot.com |date=8 April 2005 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[German William Cabassa Barber]], award-winning drama, science fiction and poetry writer.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/102203420/Premiaciones_de_Literatura_2009_2015_PDF Premiaciones de Literatura, 2009-2015.] Letters. Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, 2009-2015. Retrieved 24 June 2023.</ref>
* [[Pedro Cabiya]], writer, poet and filmmaker. Author of the seminal ''Historias tremendas''. Other books include ''Historias atroces, La cabeza, Malas hierbas, Trance, Crazy X-Ray Boomeranf Girl, Ánima Sola, Phantograms'' and ''Saga de Sandulce.'' <ref>Morales Boscio, Cynthia. La incertidumbre del ser. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Isla Negra Editores, 2009.</ref>
* [[Zenobia Camprubí]], writer and poet. Camprubí was also the wife of Nobel Prize-winning author [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccgediciones.com/Sala_de_Estar/Biografias/ZenobiaCA.htm |title=Zenobia Camprubí Aymar |language=es |publisher=Ccgediciones.com |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Nemesio Canales]], essayist and poet<ref name="ENDI"/>
* [[Luisa Capetillo]], labor activist. Capetillo was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers. She was also a writer and an anarchist who fought for workers' and women's rights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allsaopaulohotels.com/en/lucyparsonsproject.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218082834/http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/anarchism/aldebol_luisa_capetillo.html|url-status=dead|title=The Lucy Parsons Project|archive-date=18 February 2012|website=www.allsaopaulohotels.com}}</ref>
* [[Jaime Carrero]], poet and playwright<ref name=Torres/><ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[N. Humberto Cintrón]], novelist, author of ''Frankie Christo'' (1972)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Joaquín Colón]] (1896–1964), author of ''Pioneros puertorriqueños en Nueva York''<ref>{{cite book |last=Colón López |first=Joaquín |date=2002 |title=Pioneros Puertorriqueños En Nueva York : 1917-1947 |location=Houston |publisher=Arte Público Press |isbn=9781558853355 }}</ref>
* [[Manuel Corchado y Juarbe]], poet, journalist and politician. Corchado y Juarbe defended the abolition of slavery and the establishment of a university in Puerto Rico.<ref name="MC">{{cite web |url=http://isabelapr.org/manuel_corchado.htm |title=Manuel Corchado |publisher=Isabelapr.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420154321/http://isabelapr.org/manuel_corchado.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Juan Antonio Corretjer]], poet. Corretjer was also a journalist and pro-independence political activist who opposed United States rule in Puerto Rico.<ref name="PRCC">{{cite web|url=http://www.prcc-chgo.org/ |title=prcc-chgo.org |publisher=prcc-chgo.org |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Zoé Corretjer Lloréns]]<ref>El surrealismo en la novela hispanoamericana. Luis Rafael Sánchez y "La guaracha del Macho Camacho". 2007.</ref><ref>"Laíberinto en dos tiempos". 2010.</ref>
* [[Nicky Cruz]], reverend. Cruz has written two autobiographies, ''Run Baby Run'', with Jamie Buckingham (1968), and ''Soul Obsession'', with Frank Martin (2005).<ref name=rbr>"Run, Baby, Run"; Nicky Cruz (Author); Publisher: Bridge-Logos (1 December 1988); {{ISBN|978-0-88270-630-6}}</ref>
* [[Victor Hernández Cruz]], poet and essayist. Random House published Cruz's first poetry collection, ''Snaps'' (1969), when he was nineteen.
* [[Isabel Cuchí Coll]], journalist and author. Cuchi Coll was the granddaughter of [[Cayetano Coll y Toste]] and niece of [[José Coll y Cuchí]]. She served as Director of the "Sociedad de Autores Puertorriqueño"<ref>"Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso"; by: Ildelfonso López; Publisher: AEELA, 1998</ref>

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==D==
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* [[Ánjelamaría Dávila]], poet<ref name=Torres/>
* [[José Antonio Dávila]], poet. Dávila was a well-known poet during Puerto Rico's postmodern era of poetry.
* [[Virgilio Dávila]], poet. Dávila is considered by many to be one of Puerto Rico's greatest representatives of the modern literary era.<ref name="ND"/>
* [[Anjanette Delgado]], novelist, author of ''The Heartbreak Pill'' and ''The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho''. Twice winner of the International Latino Book Award.<ref>{{cite news|author=Amy Reyes|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/books/article2651463.html |title=Interview: Anjanette Delgado and 'The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho'|location=Miami |newspaper=The Miami Herald|date= October 12, 2014|access-date=26 January 2018}}</ref>
* [[Nelson Antonio Denis]], novelist, journalist, New York State Assemblyman. Denis authored ''War Against All Puerto Ricans'', published over 300 editorials as the Editorial Director of ''[[El Diario/La Prensa]]'', and received the "Best Editorial Writing" award from the [[National Association of Hispanic Journalists]].<ref>[http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/2011/qjuan-boboq-chapter-1.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007091116/http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/2011/qjuan-boboq-chapter-1.html |date=7 October 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Abelardo Díaz Alfaro]], writer<ref>{{cite news|author=William H. Honan |author-link=William H. Honan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/26/books/abelardo-diaz-alfaro-81-author-of-puerto-rican-stories.html |title=Abelardo Diaz Alfaro, 81; Author of Puerto Rican Stories  |location=Puerto Rico |work=The New York Times |date= 26 July 1999|access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Emilio Díaz Valcárcel]]<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Jaquira Díaz]], writer, journalist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://therumpus.net/2016/08/visible-women-writers-of-color-4-jaquira-diaz/|title=VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz|website=TheRumpus.com| date=17 August 2016 |access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref>
* [[José de Diego]], "The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement". De Diego was then elected to the House of Delegates, the only locally elected body of government allowed by the U.S., and which De Diego presided over from 1904 to 1917.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1R2SKPB_enAE382&tbs=bks:1&q=Jos%C3%A9+de+Diego+Felipe+Diego+Elisa+Mart%C3%ADnez&rlz=1R2SKPB_enAE382&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f46a8ee5cacb00ff|title=Google|website=www.google.com}}</ref>
* [[Caridad de la Luz]] a.k.a. ''La Bruja'', poet, playwright, actress and activist. She is also the writer/actor of ''Boogie Rican Blvd.''<ref name="LP">{{cite web|url=http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=26&id=1098418|title=Página no encontrada – El Diario NY|access-date=17 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103235455/http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=26&id=1098418|archive-date=3 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==E–G==
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* [[Elizam Escobar]] poet, author and visual artist.<ref name="EE">{{cite web|url=http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/elizam-escobar.html |title=Elizam Escobar |access-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727063550/http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps%2Bpows/elizam-escobar.html |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Sandra María Esteves]], Nuyorican poet<ref>Estill, Adriana. "Sandra María Esteves." In ''Latino and Latina Writers'' (vol. 2), ed. Alan West Duran, 873–883. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. {{ISBN|0-684-31295-6}}</ref>
* [[Héctor Feliciano]], author. Feliciano's book ''The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art'' has shed a light on an estimated 20,000 looted works; each one is owned by a museum or a collector somewhere.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/stolen-art.html |title=Art stolen by the Nazis |publisher=Writing.upenn.edu |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Carole Fernández]], novelist, author of ''Sleep of the Innocents'' (1991)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Carlos Fonseca Suárez]], novelist. author of ''Colonel Lágrimas'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/books/review/literatura.html|title=Literatura|last=Miles|first=Valerie|date=2016-12-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-08-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[Isabel Freire de Matos]], writer, educator and advocate of Puerto Rican independence.<ref name="IFM">{{cite web|author=Esther Rivera Torres |url=https://www.angelfire.com/ny/conexion/freire_de_matos_isabel.html |title=Isabel Freire de Matos |publisher=Angelfire.com |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Rosario Ferré]], author of ''The House on the Lagoon'', ''The Youngest Doll'', and ''Maldito Amor''.<ref name=ensayistas>{{cite web|url=http://www.ensayistas.org/filosofos/puertorico/ferre/introd.htm |title=Rosario Ferré |language=es |publisher=Ensayistas.org |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[José Angel Figueroa]], poet<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Shaggy Flores]], Nuyorican writer and poet. African Diaspora Scholar, Founder of Voices for the Voiceless.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/377/37718201.pdf |work=CENTRO Academic Journal |title=Puerto Rican Poetry of The Last Four Decades |publisher=Redalyc.uaemex.mx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205191705/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37718201.pdf |archive-date=5 February 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Félix Franco-Oppenheimer]], poet and writer. His works include ''Contornos'', ''Imagen y visión edénica de Puerto Rico'', and ''Antología poética''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4 |title=Municipalities: Ponce |publisher=Enciclopediapr.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190352/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Edward Gallardo]], playwright; works include those collected in ''Simpson Street and Other Plays''<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Magali García Ramis]], writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wikilearning.com/capitulo.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209122616/http://www.wikilearning.com/capitulo.php?id_contenido=1507&order=1|url-status=dead|title=None|archive-date = 9 February 2013}}</ref>
* [[José Gautier Benítez]], poet. Gautier Benítez is considered by many to be Puerto Rico's best poet of the Romantic Era.<ref name="ND"/>
* [[David Gonzalez (journalist)|David Gonzalez]], award-winning journalist and photographer at the [[New York Times]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-gonzalez|title=David Gonzalez |website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref>
* [[José Luis González (writer)|José Luis González]], writer. One of the most prominent writers of the 20th century, particularly for his "El país de cuatro pisos" (1980).<ref>"González, José Luis." Ronald Fernández, Serafín Méndez Méndez, and Gail Cueto. ''Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 154–155.</ref>
* [[Migene González-Wippler]], [[new-age]] author, prominent [[Santería]] expert.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=11044 |title=Llewellyn Worldwide – Author: Migene González-Wippler |publisher=Llewellyn.com |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824230037/http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=11044 |archive-date=24 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Manuel González Pató]], educator and writer in the field of athletics<ref name="visitponce">{{cite web|url=http://www.visitponce.com/culturaIlustres.aspx |title=Ponce – Ciudad Señorial &#124; Personajes Ilustres |publisher=Visitponce.com |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204015110/http://www.visitponce.com/culturaIlustres.aspx |archive-date=4 February 2014 }}</ref>
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==H–K==
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* [[Victor Hernández Cruz]], poet. In 1969, Hernández Cruz became the first Hispanic to be published by a mainstream publishing house when [[Random House]] published his poem "Snaps".<ref>Aparicio, Frances R. [http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/cruz_vi.html "Victor Hernández Cruz."] ''Heath Anthology of American Literature'', Fifth Edition. Paul Lauter, General Editor. ''Cengage Online Study Center.'' Accessed 10 January 2010.</ref> In 1981, [[Life Magazine]] named him one of America's (US) greatest poets.<ref name="HF"/>
* [[Eugenio María de Hostos]] a.k.a. "El Ciudadano de las Américas" (The Citizen of the Americas), educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, and independence advocate.
* [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]], playwright and author. She is best known for writing the book for the [[Tony Award for Best Musical|Tony Award]]-winning [[musical theatre|musical]] ''[[In the Heights]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/143122-26-Miles-Quiara-Hudes-Mother-Daughter-Road-Trip-Tale-Gets-Chicago-Premiere-Starting-Oct-16 |title=26 Miles, Quiara Hudes' Mother-Daughter Road-Trip Tale, Gets Chicago Premiere Starting Oct. 16 |publisher=Playbill.com |date=17 September 2010 |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921071804/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/143122-26-Miles-Quiara-Hudes-Mother-Daughter-Road-Trip-Tale-Gets-Chicago-Premiere-Starting-Oct-16 |archive-date=21 September 2010 }}</ref>
* [[José de Jesús Esteves]], poet, lawyer, and judge<ref>{{cite book|title=Biografías puertorriqueñas: perfil histórico de un pueblo|year=1970|publisher=Troutman Press|author=Cesáreo Rosa-Nieves, Esther Melón de Díaz|page=145}}</ref>
* [[Zoé Jiménez Corretjer]], poet, author<ref>López Baralt, Mercedes. ''Literatura Puertorriqueña del Siglo XX: Antología.'' San Juan: EDUPR, 2004.</ref>
* [[José J. Iguina Goitia]], Puerto Rican writer, poet, novelist, lecturer, short story teller<ref>Iguina Goitia, J.J. Author, poet and writer born  in 1952 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Wrote his first book during the 2019 pandemic, from here on, has not stopped writing. Among his published books are, "Enseñanzas del Fregadero" Amazon 2021, "Entre Olas y Dos Ríos" Amazon 2022.</ref>
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==L==
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* [[Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes]], writer. Author of ''Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails''.<ref name=identity>Morales-Díaz, Enrique. "Identity of the 'Diasporican' Homosexual in the Literary Periphery." In José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera, eds. ''Writing Off the Hyphen: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 295–312. {{ISBN|978-0-295-98824-5}}</ref>
* [[Enrique A. Laguerre]], writer. Laguerre was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/e_bios/enrique_laguerre.shtml |title= Enrique A. Laguerre|publisher=Prpop.org |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Eduardo Lalo]] (born 1960), writer. Author of ''Simone''.<ref>"El puertorriqueño Eduardo Lalo gana el Rómulo Gallegos de novela." ''El País'' 9 June 2013.</ref>
* Elidio La Torre-Lagares (born 1965), poet, novelist, essayist, author of ''Vicios de construcción'' (2008)<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Tato Laviera]], poet. Author of ''AmeRícan''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Luis |first=William |title=From New York to the World: An Interview With Tato Laviera |jstor=2931917| journal=Callaloo  |volume=15 |issue=4  |date=Autumn 1992 |pages= 1022–1033|doi= 10.2307/2931917|url=http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/1803/3978/1/From%20New%20York%20to%20the%20World--%20An%20Interview%20with%20Tato%20Laviera.pdf|hdl=1803/3978|hdl-access=free}}</ref>{{rp|1022}}
* [[Georgina Lázaro]], children's poet<ref name="Leon">[http://www.hitn.tv/noticia_es.php?id=605 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307030023/http://www.hitn.tv/noticia_es.php?id=605 |date=7 March 2008 |title=Georgina Lázaro León}}</ref>
* [[Aurora Levins Morales]] (born 1954), writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/morales_aurora_levins.php |title=Aurora Levins Morales: Voices From the Gaps: University of Minnesota |publisher=Voices.cla.umn.edu |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[José Liboy Erba (Pepe Liboy)]] (born 1964)<ref name=Torres/>
* [[José María Lima]] (1934–2009), poet, philosopher, mathematician, author of ''La sílaba en la piel'' (1982)<ref name=Torres/><ref>[[:es:José María Lima]]</ref>
* [[Luis Lloréns Torres]], poet<ref name="ND"/>
* [[Washington Llorens]], journalist, writer, [[linguistics|linguist]], and scholar<ref name="visitponce"/><ref>[http://www.enciclopediapr1.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=10011901 ]{{dead link|date=March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Juan López Bauzá]], writer, author of ''Barataria'' (2012)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://repositorio.upr.edu/handle/11721/2721 |title=Intertextualidad del ''Quijote'' de Cervantes en ''Barataria'', de Juan López Bauzá: estudio de las metáforas de la identidad puertorriqueña |publisher=Universidad de Puerto Rico - UPR Repository |date=1 December 2021 |access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>
* [[Luis López Nieves]], writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciudadseva.com/libros/ponce.htm |title=La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León – Luis López Nieves |publisher=Ciudadseva.com |date=7 May 2011 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Ángel Lozada]], novelist<ref>{{cite journal|last=Villanueva Collado |first=Alfredo |url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/377/37719110.pdf |title=René Marqués, Angel Lozada, and the Constitution of the (Queer) Puerto Rican National Subject |journal=CENTRO Journal |volume=XIX |number=1 |date=Spring 2007 |pages=179–191 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923055717/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37719110.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Carmen Lugo Filippi]] (born 1940), short-story writer<ref name=Torres/>
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==M–N==
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* [[Manuel Manrique]], novelist, author of ''Island in Harlem'' (1966)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Hugo Margenat]], poet. Margenat was also the founder of the political youth pro-independence organizations "Acción Juventud Independentista" and "Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia".<ref name="EPR">{{cite web |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=06100601&page=5 |title=Language and Literature: Brief History of Puerto Rican Literature |publisher=Enciclopediapr.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133453/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=06100601&page=5 |archive-date=13 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[René Marqués]], playwright. Marqués wrote ''La Carreta'' (''The Oxcart''), which helped secure his reputation as a leading literary figure in Puerto Rico.<ref name="A">{{cite web |url=https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/article/viewFile/63/38 |title=Data |website= journals.ku.edu|access-date=2020-08-04}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Martínez Maldonado]] (born 1937), physician, poet, novelist, author of poetry books ''La voz sostenida'' and ''La novela del medio día'' and of the novel ''Isla Verde''<ref name="Fm">[http://medicine-opera.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/martines-founders-medal-presentation.pdf Presentation of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation Founder's Medal to Dr. Manuel Martínez-Maldonado]</ref>
* [[Antonio Martorell]] (born 1939), painter, graphic artist, writer and radio and television personality<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Nemir Matos-Cintrón]], poet, novelist<ref>Rodríguez-Matos, Carlos Antonio. "Matos-Cintrón, Nemir." In ''Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes'', ed. David William Foster, 216–17. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.</ref>
* [[Francisco Matos Paoli]], poet, critic, and essayist. Matos Paoli was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] in 1977. He was also a Secretary General of the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]].<ref name="PC">{{cite web|author=Daniel B. Zwickel |url=http://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/eng-matos.html |title=Francisco Matos Paoli |publisher=Peacehost.net |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Joserramón Melendes]] (born 1952), poet<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Concha Melendez]], poet, writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/bge_concha.htm |title=Biblioteca Nacional - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña |access-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205072531/http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/bge_concha.htm |archive-date=5 February 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Jesús Papoleto Meléndez]], poet<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Manuel Méndez Ballester]], writer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.agproxy.inter.edu/cai/salamuseo_mmb.htm |title=Sala Museo Maunel Mendez Ballester |access-date=2012-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040409043649/http://agproxy.inter.edu/cai/salamuseo_mmb.htm |archive-date=9 April 2004 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Nancy Mercado]], poet, playwright. Mercado is the author of "It Concerns the Madness," seven theatre plays, and a number of essays. Her work has been extensively anthologized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/arts/literature/sbwire-116151.htm |title=phati'tude Literary Magazine Announces Guest Editor |publisher=Sbwire.com |date=28 November 2011 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Luis Muñoz Marín]], politician and poet
* [[Nicholasa Mohr]], writer. Her works, including the novel ''Nilda'', tell of growing up in the Puerto Rican communities of the [[Bronx]] and [[Spanish Harlem|El Barrio]] and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/nicholasa-mohr-dlb/ |title=Nicholasa Mohr Biography |publisher=BookRags.com |date=2 November 2010 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|editor-first=Paul |editor-last=Lauter |url=http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/mohr_ni.html |title=Heath Anthology of American Literature Nicholasa Mohr – Author Page |publisher=College.hmco.com |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Rosario Morales]], poet, co-author of ''Getting Home Alive'' (1986)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Richie Narvaez]], short story writer and novelist, author of ''Hipster Death Rattle'' (2019) and ''Noiryorican'' (2020)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://latinostories.com/narvaez/|title=Adding an Accent to the Noir: Jessica Galán Interviews Richie Narvaez|website=Latino Stories| date=10 June 2021 |access-date=2021-06-10}}</ref>
* [[Luis Negrón]], short-story writer. His book ''Mundo Cruel'' won the [[Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction]] at the [[26th Lambda Literary Awards]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/03/05/mundo-cruel-by-luis-negron/|title='Mundo Cruel' by Luis Negrón|last=Lopez|first=Dan|date=2013-03-06|website=Lambda Literary|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref>
* [[Mercedes Negrón Muñoz]], a.k.a. "Clara Lair", poet. Negrón Muñoz was an influential poet whose work dealt with the everyday struggles of the common Puerto Rican.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b65NtSSss3cC&q=mercedes+negron+munoz&pg=PA234 |title=Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia – Ronald Fernandez, Serafín Méndez Méndez, Gail Cueto |via= Google Boeken |access-date=12 March 2014|isbn=9780313298226 |year=1998 |last1=Fernandez |first1=Ronald |last2=Mendez |first2=Serafín Mendez |last3=Cueto |first3=Gail |publisher=Greenwood Press }}</ref>
* [[Urayoán Noel]], poet<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/urayoan-noel|title=Urayoán Noel |website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2019-06-24}}</ref>
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==O==
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* [[Judith Ortiz Cofer]], poet, writer and essayist<ref name="joc">{{cite web|url=http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/cofer.html |title=Georgia Writers Hall of Fame &#124; Home |publisher=Libs.uga.edu |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Micol Ostow]], author. Ostow wrote ''Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane''. Her novel ''Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa'' was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/children/festival/2007AuthorsAttending.htm |title=Princeton Library |access-date=6 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226235452/http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/children/festival/2007AuthorsAttending.htm |archive-date=26 February 2010 }}</ref>
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==P–Q==
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* [[José Gualberto Padilla]] a.k.a. "El Caribe", poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/elibros/LibroPR/LPR_Esp/Capitulo%20_XVIII_HOMBRE_DEL_PASADO.pdf |language=es |title=XVIII Hombre del Pasado |first=Eugenio |last=Astol |publisher=Bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425080044/http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/elibros/LibroPR/LPR_Esp/Capitulo%20_XVIII_HOMBRE_DEL_PASADO.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Luis Palés Matos]], poet of Afro-Caribbean themes; author of ''Tuntún de pasa y grifería'' and ''Pueblo negro''.<ref name="El Nuevo Dia">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/matos.asp |title=Luis Palés Matos: Poeta |work=Estudiantes Al Dia |date=March 2001 |publisher=Zonai.com |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074159/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/matos.asp |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Benito Pastoriza Iyodo]], writer<ref>García, Heidi Ann. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/29742117 "Review: Cuestión de hombres by Benito Pastoriza Iyodo."] ''Chasqui'', Vol. 35, No. 2 (Nov., 2006), pp. 157-161.</ref>
* [[Antonio S. Pedreira]], writer and educator. Pedreira's most important book was ''Insularismo'', in which he explores the meaning of being Puerto Rican.<ref name="END">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0601/pedreira.asp |access-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614051008/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0601/pedreira.asp |archive-date=14 June 2011 |title=Biografías - Antonio S. Pedreira }}</ref>
* [[Pedro Pietri]], poet, playwright. Co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Movement]]; author of ''Puerto Rican Obituary'' and ''The Masses Are Asses''.<ref name="Pietri">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.monthlyreview.org/0604pietri.htm |title=Puerto Rican Obituary |magazine=Monthly Review |date=3 March 2004 |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317040344/http://www.monthlyreview.org/0604pietri.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Miguel Piñero]], playwright, writer. Co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Poets Cafe]].<ref>{{cite news | author=Leslie Bennets | title= Miguel Pinero, Whose Plays Dealt With Life in Prison, Is Dead at 41  | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D71E3EF93BA25755C0A96E948260 | work=The New York Times | date=18 June 1988 | access-date=26 October 2008}}</ref>
* [[Juan Ponce de León II]], first Puerto Rican acting governor. His written work ''Memorias de Melgarejo'' (''Melgarejo's Memoirs'') is one of Puerto Rico's most important historical documents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cienciapr.org/history |access-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930192644/http://www.cienciapr.org/history |archive-date=30 September 2011 |title=Home - CienciaPR }}</ref>
* [[Juan Carlos Quiñones]] (born 1972), writer<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Ernesto Quiñonez]], novelist, author of ''Bodega Dreams'', ''Chango's Fire'', and ''Taina''.
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==R–S==
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* [[Manuel Ramos Otero]], short story writer, poet and essayist; author of ''Página en blanco y staccato''.<ref>Quiroga, José. "Ramos Otero, Manuel." ''Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003'', ed. Daniel Balderston and Mike Gonzalez, 471–72. New York: Routledge, 2004. {{ISBN|0-415-30687-6}}.</ref>
* [[Evaristo Ribera Chevremont]], poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/collections/rarebooks/hispanic/lit_caribbean.shtml |title=Rare Books & Special Collections // Hesburgh Libraries // University of Notre Dame |publisher=Library.nd.edu |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Marie Teresa Ríos]], author. Author of the novel ''The Fifteenth Pelican'', which was the basis for the popular 1960s television sitcom, ''[[The Flying Nun]]''.
* [[Edward Rivera]], novelist, author of ''Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic'' (1983)<ref name=Zimmerman/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5DE1130F932A3575AC0A9679C8B63 |title=Edward Rivera, 62, Writer and Teacher  |work=The New York Times |date=1 September 2001 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]], playwright. Rivera is the first [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] screenwriter to be nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1433580/awards|title=Jose Rivera|website=IMDb}}</ref>
* [[Oswaldo Rivera]], novelist, author of ''Fire and Rain'' (1990)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Jorge Rivera Herrans]], singer, songwriter of EPIC: THE ITHACA SAGA. Based on the Odyssey by [[Homer]].
* [[Abraham Rodriguez (novelist)|Abraham Rodríguez, Jr.]], short story author; works include ''Ashes to Ashes'' (1989),<ref name=Zimmerman/> ''Boy Without a Flag'', ''Spidertown'', ''The Buddha Book'', ''South by South Bronx''
* [[Leonardo Rodríguez (author)|Leonardo Rodríguez]], short story author; works include ''They Have to Be Puerto Ricans'' (1988)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Lola Rodríguez de Tió]], poet. Rodríguez de Tió wrote lyrics to the revolutionary "[[La Borinqueña]]".
* [[Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá]], novelist, author of ''The Renuciation'' and ''Cortijo's Wake''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/erj/inicio_erj.html |title=Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá – ¡Bienvenidos! |publisher=Bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222170821/http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/erj/inicio_erj.html |archive-date=22 February 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Bonafide Rojas]], poet, musician, author of ''Pelo Bueno (2004), When the City Sleeps (2012), Renovatio (2014), Notes On The Return To The Island (2017), & Excelsior (2024)''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/04/a-poet-laureate-for-all-five-boroughs-0 |title=A poet laureate for all five boroughs: Bonafide Rojas versifies the city that nurtured his talent &#124; New York Daily News |publisher=Nydailynews.com |date=5 April 2012 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Bonafide Rojas |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bonafide-rojas}}</ref>
* [[Francisco Rojas Tollinchi]], poet, civic leader and journalist.<ref name="JDLOFRT">"JUSTIPRECIACIÓN DE LA OBRADE FRANCISCO ROJAS TOLLINCHI"; by Ada Hilda Martínez de Alicea; Dept. Estudios Hispánicos Pontificia Universidad Católica de PR.</ref>
* [[Efe Rosario]], poet. Author of ''El tiempo ha sido terrible con nosotros (2020),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/notas/joven-boricua-lanza-libro-de-poemas-sobre-como-se-resiste-en-puerto-rico/?fbclid=IwAR2uc_z-oACqoPhJlwM8KCi9_a1LU4vo2U635d-PzyM6ZSlYkdbv4nXn1C8 |title=Joven boricua lanza libro de poemas sobre cómo se resiste en Puerto Rico; Primera Hora |publisher=primerahora.com |date=21 September 2020 |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> También mueren los lugares donde fuimos felices (2020)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://artsolido.com/2020/11/24/el-poeta-puertorriqueno-efe-rosario-resulta-ganador-del-i-premio-internacional-de-poesia-juan-ramon-jimenez-de-coral-gables-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0DnEZKLl1tYKtibU8hkxTZZw-5-i5plcrVTgwyBR5bApuJOsr3G_Ck1XU |title=El Poeta Puertorriqueño Efe Rosario resulta ganador del I Premio Internacional de Poesía Juan Ramón Jiménez de Coral Gables 2020; Art-Sólido |publisher=artsolido.com |date=24 November 2020 |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> & Mermar (2023)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.primerahora.com/entretenimiento/cultura-teatro/notas/instituto-de-cultura-anuncia-ganadores-de-los-premios-nacionales-de-literatura-2023/ |title=Instituto de Cultura anuncia ganadores de los Premios Nacionales de Literatura 2023; Primera Hora |publisher=primerahora.com |date=1 February 2024 |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref>''
* Richard Ruíz, novelist, author of ''The Hungry American'' (1978)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Roque Salas Rivera]] (born 1985), poet<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/meet-philadelphias-new-poet-laureate-raquel-salas-rivera-poet-migrant-bridge-builder-20180108.html|title=Meet Philadelphia's new poet laureate, Raquel Salas Rivera: Poet, migrant, bridge-builder|last=Timpane|first=John|date=2018-01-08|website=www.philly.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref>
* [[Luis Rafael Sánchez]], playwright, novelist<ref name="FNC">{{cite web |url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/l_bios/luis_rafael_sanchez.shtml |title=Luis Rafael Sánchez |publisher=Prpop.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=28 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628062105/http://www.prpop.org/biografias/l_bios/luis_rafael_sanchez.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Joe Sánchez]], former New York City police officer. Sánchez was a "highly decorated former New York City police officer and author whose books give an insight as to the corruption within the department."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_fired_nypd_cop_writes_gritty_book_to_set.html |title=Fired NYPD cop writes gritty book to set record straight |newspaper=NY Daily News |date=16 July 2008 |access-date=12 March 2014 |location=New York}}</ref>
* [[Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz]], short story author<ref name=Torres/>
* [[Esmeralda Santiago]], author of the coming of age memoir ''When I Was Puerto Rican''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_santiago.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918165813/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_santiago.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 September 2012 |title=Masterpiece Theatre &#124; American Collection &#124; Almost a Woman &#124; Essays + Interviews &#124; Esmeralda Santiago |publisher=Pbs.org |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Ruben Santiago-Hudson]], playwright and actor. Santiago-Hudson has won national awards for his work in both areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalostate.edu/insider/index.asp?article=2760 |title=Insider – Buffalo State College – College Confers Honors on Four Alumni |publisher=Buffalostate.edu |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517164328/http://www.buffalostate.edu/insider/index.asp?article=2760 |archive-date=17 May 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Mayra Santos-Febres]], poet, novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16676-mayra-santos-febres |title=Mayra Santos-Febres – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103234451/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16676-mayra-santos-febres |archive-date=3 January 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Iván Segarra Báez]], novelist, poet, author of ''Ante la luz de un amor prohibido'' and director of ''Revista Literaria de Puerto Rico''.
* [[Pedro Juan Soto]], writer/novelist. Soto is the father of slain independence activist [[Carlos Soto Arriví]].<ref name="TIME">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916768,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728231423/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916768,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 July 2010 |title=Nation: Death at Cerro Maravilla |magazine=Time |date=14 May 1979 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Clemente Soto Vélez]], poet and activist<ref name="CSV">{{cite web|url=http://www.centropr.org/faids/velezb.html |title=Guide to the Clemente Soto Vélez and Amanda Vélez Papers 1924–1996 (Bulk 1960s–1994) |access-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227101005/http://www.centropr.org/faids/velezb.html |archive-date=27 February 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Clementina Souchet]], novelist, author of ''Clementina: Historia sin fin'' (1986)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
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==T–Z==
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* [[Alejandro Tapia y Rivera]], writer and poet. "The Father of Puerto Rican Literature".<ref name="Z">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/tapia.asp |title=Biografías |access-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808152201/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/tapia.asp |archive-date=8 August 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Piri Thomas]], author of the best-seller ''[[Down These Mean Streets]]''.<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web |url=http://www.cheverote.com/bio.html |title=Piri Thomas' Life and Flows |publisher=Cheverote.com |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321022258/http://www.cheverote.com/bio.html |archive-date=21 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Luisita Lopez Torregrosa]], journalist and author<ref>"Luisita López Torregrosa." ''Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Contemporary Puerto Rican Writers in the United States.'' Carmen Haydée Rivera, ed. New York: CENTRO Press, 2023. 52-67. {{ISBN|979-8396590083}}</ref>
* [[Edwin Torres (Poet)|Edwin Torres]], "[[Nuyorican Movement]]" poet<ref name="aloud">''Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe'' Holt. {{ISBN|0-8050-3257-6}}.</ref>
* Judge [[Edwin Torres (Judge)|Edwin Torres]], writer. New York Supreme Court Justice who wrote ''[[Carlito's Way]]''.<ref name="herald">{{cite news|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n48/ProfTorres-en.html |title=Puerto Rico Profile: Judge Edwin Torres |date=1 December 2000 |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |access-date=2 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106172450/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n48/ProfTorres-en.html |archive-date=6 January 2008 }}</ref>
* [[J. L. Torres]] (born 1954), writer and poet<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/j-l-torres "J. L. Torres."] ''Poetry Foundation'', retrieved May 10, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jl_torres_0 "J.L. Torres."] ''Poets & Writers'', retrieved May 10, 2021.</ref>
* [[Justin Torres]] (born 1980), writer<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/books/review/we-the-animals-by-justin-torres-book-review.html | work=The New York Times | first=Joseph | last=Salvatore | title=We the Animals – By Justin Torres – Book Review | date=2011-09-23}}</ref>
* [[Diego de Torres Vargas]] a [[priest]] who was the first person to write a book about the history of Puerto Rico.<ref name="HIPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.prfrogui.com/geocities/hommujerilustres.htm |title=Puertorriqueños Ilustres |access-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080816022702/http://www.prfrogui.com/geocities/hommujerilustres.htm |archive-date=16 August 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Luz María Umpierre]], poet, scholar<ref>{{cite web|last=Rivera |first=Carmen Haydée |url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/377/37720102.pdf |title=Language is our only homelan': An Interview with Luz María Umpierre |work=Centro – Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies |volume=20.1 (Spring 2008) 13–21 |publisher=Redalyc.uaemex.mx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406175256/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37720102.pdf |archive-date=6 April 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Charlie Vázquez]], novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bigfib.com/lit/vazquez.html |title=Author Profile Charlie Vazquez |publisher=Bigfib.com |date=14 July 2008 |access-date=12 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510162032/http://www.bigfib.com/lit/vazquez.html |archive-date=10 May 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Lourdes Vázquez]], poet, short story writer, novelist<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=25745872|title=Un punto de vista diferente: entrevista a Lourdes Vázquez|first1=Selfa A.|last1=Chew|first2=Lourdes|last2=Vázquez|date=1 January 2004|journal=Bilingual Review / La Revista Bilingüe|volume=28|issue=3|pages=265–268}}</ref>
* [[Robert Vazquez-Pacheco]], author<ref name=identity/>
* [[Ana Lydia Vega]], short story author, essayist<ref>Puleo, Augustus. "Ana Lydia Vega, the Caribbean Storyteller." ''Afro-Hispanic Review'' 15.2 (Fall 1996): 21–25.</ref>
* [[Bernardo Vega (writer)|Bernardo Vega]], novelist, author of ''The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega'' (1977, English ed. 1984)<ref name=Zimmerman/>
* [[Edgardo Vega Yunqué]] or Ed Vega, novelist<ref name=Vega>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|last=Weber|first=Bruce|date=9 September 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/books/09vegayunque.html|title=Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Novelist of the Puerto Rican Experience in New York, Dies at 72.}}</ref>
* [[Irene Vilar]], author and literary agent. Vilar is the granddaughter of independence activist [[Lolita Lebrón]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Robin |last=Abcarian |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-abortion-memoir13-2009oct13,0,7832320.story |title= Memoir of a former abortion addict  |newspaper= Latimes.com |date= 13 October 2009 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Alfredo Villanueva Collado]], poet<ref>{{cite journal|access-date=20 July 2023|date=2020–2021|first=Marithelma|last=Costa|number=12|title=VIVA! Alfredo Villanueva Collado (October 16, 1944 - September 5, 2020): A Remembrance|url=https://archive-vol-ii.weebly.com/alfredo-villanueva-collado.html|volume=2|website=Willy Partition}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* [[William Carlos Williams]] (Puerto Rican mother), [[Modernist]] poet<ref>Colgan, Richard (2009)  ''Advice to the Young Physician: On the Art of Medicine''. Springer Press.  p120</ref>
* [[Emanuel Xavier]] (Puerto Rican father), poet and novelist<ref name=identity/>
* [[Iris M. Zavala]] (1936–2020), author, scholar, poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barcelonareview.com/41/s_iz_ent.htm |title=En El Mundo De Iris. Entrevista A Iris Zavala Por Domingo Luis Hernández |publisher=Barcelonareview.com |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Zeno Gandía]], writer. Zeno Gandía wrote ''La Charca'', a notable late nineteenth-century Puerto Rican novel.<ref name="Charca">{{cite web |url=http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/bv/Charca.htm |title=La Charca, de Manuel Zeno Gandía: Pathfinder |publisher=Ponce.inter.edu |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=4 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104083451/http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/bv/Charca.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==See also==
* [[Before Columbus Foundation]]
* [[History of women in Puerto Rico]]
* [[List of Latin American writers]]
* [[List of Puerto Ricans]]
* [[Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States|Multi-ethnic literature of the United States]]
* [[Puerto Rican literature]]
* [[Media of Puerto Rico]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
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<ref name="ENDI">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/blanco.asp. |title=Tomás Blanco |access-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073549/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/blanco.asp |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>
<ref name="ND">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0101/josecampeche.asp |access-date=7 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074034/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0101/josecampeche.asp |archive-date=27 September 2011 |title=José Campeche }}</ref>
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==External links==
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* Acosta-Belén, Edna. "Puerto Rican Literature in the United States," in ''Redefining American Literary History'', Ed. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, MLA, 1990.
* ''[http://www1.uprh.edu/zjimenez/GENERACION80/bibliografia.htm Bibliografía de escritores puertorriqueños de la Generación Ochenta (Generation of the 80's)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627024638/http://www1.uprh.edu/zjimenez/GENERACION80/bibliografia.htm |date=27 June 2013 }}''.
* Cancel, Mario R. ''Literatura y narrativa puertorriqueña: la escritura entre siglos''. San Juan: Pasadizo, 2007.
* Callahan, Laura. ''Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus.'' John Benjamins Publishing, 2004.
* López Baralt, Mercedes. ''Literatura Puertorriqueña del Siglo XX:  Antología''. San Juan: EDUPR, 2004.
* Martínez Márquez, Alberto, and Mario Cancel. ''El límite volcado.  Antología de la Generación de Poetas de los Ochenta''.  San Juan:  Isla Negra, 2000.
* Milligan, Bryce, ''Floricanto Sí!: A Collection of Latina Poetry.'' Penguin, 1998.
* Moreira, Rubén Alejandro. ''Antología de la poesía puertorriqueña. Vol. I Romanticismo; Vol.II Modernismo y Postmodernismo; Vol. III Contemporánea; Vol. IV Contemporánea''. San Juan: Tríptico, 1992–1993.
* Ortega, Julio. ''Antología de la poesía latinoamericana del siglo XXI: el turno y la transición''. México: Editorial Siglo XXI, 1997.
* Torres, Lourdes. "In the Contact Zone: Code-Switching Strategies by Latino/a Writers", JUSTOR, 2007.
* Stanchich, Maritza. "Insular Interventions: Diasporic Puerto Rican Literature Bilanguaging toward a Greater Puerto Rico." Ph.D. diss, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.
* [[J. L. Torres|Torres-Padilla, José L.]] and Carmen Haydée Rivera. ''Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.'' University of Washington Press, 2008.
* Zimmerman, Marc. ''U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography.'' MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.

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