The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Tomás Carrión Maduro was born on January 4, 1870, in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, on the southern end of the archipelago. Carrión Maduro was a journalist, a self-taught man of letters, playwright, poet, essayist, and legislator for the District of Ponce. He was the son of Manuel Carrión and Josefa Maduro. For journalistic purposes, he wrote under the pseudonym of “Cumba,” and was the author of Lo de siempre, Voces de la noche, La canción del escéptico, among other writings. He died on March 13, 1920. 

Works Cited

“Tomás Carrión Maduro.” Juan Díaz, http://www.juanadiaz.org/monu-es/monu-08.html.

“Tomás Carrión Maduro, Sr.” Find a Grave,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197542605/tom%C3%A1s.