El Proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña

José de Diego was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 1867 and died in New York, New York in 1918. He was a poet, politician, and lawyer. He lived part of his childhood in Spain where he joined the Comité Republicano Progresista de La Rioja. In Madrid, he published articles in La Semana Cómica. He lived a few years in Cuba, where he earned his law degree from the University of Havana in 1891. In 1892, he returned to Puerto Rico, living in Mayagüez in 1892, then in Arecibo in 1893. In 1900, he was part of the Consejo Ejecutivo de Puerto Rico in 1900 and served as president of the Puerto Rican House of Delegates from 1907 to 1917. He then moved to New York, New York. His active participation in politics earned him the nickname “Caballero de la Raza.” His work includes Pomarrosas (1904), Jovillos (1916), Cantos de rebeldía (1916) y Cantos de pitirre (1949), La codificación administrativa: notas para un libro (1890), and El plebiscito puertorriqueño (1917).

Works Cited
Fernández, Tomás, and Elena Tamaro. “Biografía de José de Diego.” Biografías y Vidas: La enciclopedia biográfica en línea, Barcelona, Spain, 2004, www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/d/diego_jose.htm