Living to Tell the Tale

{{Short description|Autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez}} {{Infobox book | image = Living to Tell the Tale.jpg | author = [[Gabriel García Márquez]] | pub_date = 2002 | title_orig = Vivir para contarla | language = Spanish | translator = [[Edith Grossman]] | genre = Autobiography }} {{italic title}} '''''Living to Tell the Tale''''' (original [[Spanish language]] title: ''Vivir para contarla'') is the first volume of the [[autobiography]] of [[Gabriel García Márquez]].

The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by [[Edith Grossman]] published in 2003.

''Living to Tell the Tale'' tells the story of García Márquez's life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez's family, schooling, and early career as a [[journalist]] and [[short story]] writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the [[Banana massacre]] that appears prominently in ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for ''[[Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]''.

==Editions== *{{cite book|author=García Márquez, Gabriel|title=Living to Tell the Tale|publisher=Vintage International|year=2004|editor=Edith Grossman|isbn=1-4000-3454-X}}

==External links==

{{Gabriel García Márquez}}

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[[Category:2002 non-fiction books]] [[Category:Colombian non-fiction books]] [[Category:Literary autobiographies]] [[Category:Non-fiction books by Gabriel García Márquez]] [[Category:Spanish-language non-fiction books]]

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