The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Jesús Gil de Lamadrid was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1896 and died in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in 1955. He worked in the newspaper industry in Ponce, Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting as a linotypist and ultimately becoming the editor of El Día. He published satire under the pseudonym Simplicio in the newspaper El Globo in San Juan. His works include Cuatrocosas (1925), A punta de lápiz (Ed. Venezuela, 1927), and Remanso lírico (1963).

Works Cited

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina. Diccionario de literatura puertorriqueña. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tome 2, vol. 1, 1974, p. 684.

Rosa-Nieves, Cesareo. La poesía en Puerto Rico. Third edition, Editorial Edil Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1969.