Isabel Allende Llona, (born in Lima, Peru; 2 August 1942), is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realist" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America.The list 101 top leaders of the Latino community in the U.S; Cover story. Allen...

Gary Soto (born April 1952) is an American author and poet.

William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 - 4 March 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-...

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer. His output includes short stories, essays, poetry, literary criticism, and translations. He was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft,...

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten.

In 1960, the family fled back to the United States, after her father participated i...

Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914?April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sor Juana (November 12, 1651 1648, according to some biographers - April 17, 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Novohispano scholar, nun, poet, and a writer of the baroque school.

Latin American literature rose to particular prominence during the second half of the 20th century, largely thanks to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the region's literature is often associated solely with this style (and its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez). This largely obscures a rich and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries.

Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professi...