The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Luis Llorens Torres was born in 1876 in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico and died in 1944 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He completed his secondary education at Colegio Don Rafael Janer de Maricao in the Mayagüez district. He studied law, philosophy, and literature at the University of Granada in Spain. He returned to Puerto Rico in 1901 and opened a law firm alongside Nemesio Canales, Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, and José de Diego. He also he joined the Partido Unión de Puerto Rico. His publications include América: estudios históricos y filológicos sobre Puerto Rico (V. Suárez, 1898), Al pie de la Alahambra (Penella y Bosch, 1899), Grito de Lares (Tip. Libertad, 1927), and Alturas de las Américas (Talleres tipográficos Baldrich & Co., 1940). 

Works Cited

Fernández, Tomás y Elena Tamaro. “Biografía de Luis Llorens Torres.” Biografías y Vidas, La enciclopedia biográfica en línea, Barcelona, Spain, 2004, www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/llorens_torres.htm.

“Lloréns Torres, Luis.” BiografíasPR, Lexjuris, 1996-2002, https://www.lexjuris.com/biografias/buscar/biografias.asp?search=ayuda. Search: Lloréns Torres.