The Puerto Rican Literature Project

José A. Lanauze Rolón was born in 1893 in Coamo, Puerto Rico and died in 1951. He completed his education in Coamo, becoming a teacher and eventually moving to Washington, where he studied otorhinolaryngology at Howard University. Upon returning to Puerto Rico, he settled in Ponce and worked as a physician and politician. In 1948, he became the president of the Ponce Municipal Assembly, after which he joined the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño and the Partido Comunista (Communist Party of Puerto Rico). Alongside Joaquín Gil de Lamadrid, he founded the Revista Gráfica del Sur. His work includes El mal de los muchos hijos (1926), Por los caminos de la violencia: La idea comunista (Casa Editorial América, 1932), El fracaso del nuevo tratado (1935), ¿Por qué soy comunista? (Imprenta El Día), and Momentos: Poesía y cuentos fantásticos (Tipografía El Aguila, 1916).

Fuentes consultadas

Miguel Á. Náter. “Ciencia, progreso y escepticismo en Momentos, de José A. Lanauze Rolón”. Revista de Estudios Hispáncos, I.1, 2014, pp. 157-81, revistas.upr.edu/index.php/reh/article/view/13219/10897