The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Francisco González Marín, also known as Pachín Marín, was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1863 and died in Cuba in 1897. He was a poet, writer, typesetter, and journalist. In 1887, he founded the political newspaper, El Postillón. He lived in exile in the Dominican Republic; Caracas, Venezuela; Martinique, France; New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Haiti, and Cuba. While in New York, he joined the Junta Revolucionaria de Cuba y Puerto Rico and 1892, after the death of his brother, he joined the Cuban Liberation Army. González Marín’s work includes Mi óbolo (1887), Romances (Modesto A. Tirado, 1892), En el barco (1894), El Trapo (1896), and En la arena (1898).

Works Cited

Cabrera, Manrique. Historia de la literatura puertorriqueña. Publicaciones Gaviota, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2010.

“Francisco Gonzálo Marín.” Proyecto Salón Hogar, Fundación Héctor A. García, 2005, www.proyectosalonhogar.com/BiografiasPr/francisco_gonzalo_marin.htm.