The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Gonzalo O’Neill was born in 1870 and died in 1942. He was a poet, playwright, and businessman. Along with José A. Negrón Sanjurjo and a group of writers, he co founded the literary magazine El Palenque de la Juventud in 1886. O’Neill moved to New York, New York in the 1920s immediately upon graduating from the Instituto Civil. There, his plays were performed in East Harlem’s Park Palace Theater. His works include La indiana borinqueña: Diálogo en verso (1922), Moncho Reyes (Spanish America Print. Co., 1923), Sonoras bagatelas o sicilianas (Imp. América, 1924) and Pabellón de Borinquen: Bajo una sola bandera (Spanish-American Print. Co., 1934).

Works Cited

Acosta-Belén, Edna. “The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.” EnciclopediaPR, 15 May 2021, https://en.enciclopediapr.org/content/the-literature-of-the-puerto-rican-diaspora/. 

Kanellos, Nicolás. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 2008.