# Living to Tell the Tale

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Autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez

Living to Tell the Tale Author Gabriel García Márquez Original title Vivir para contarla Translator Edith Grossman Language Spanish Genre Autobiography Publication date 2002

***Living to Tell the Tale*** (original [Spanish language](/source/Spanish_language) title: *Vivir para contarla*) is the first volume of the [autobiography](/source/Autobiography) of [Gabriel García Márquez](/source/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez).

The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by [Edith Grossman](/source/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](/source/Journalist) and [short story](/source/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](/source/Banana_massacre) that appears prominently in *[One Hundred Years of Solitude](/source/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude)* and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for *[Chronicle of a Death Foretold](/source/Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold)*.

## Editions

- García Márquez, Gabriel (2004). Edith Grossman (ed.). *Living to Tell the Tale*. Vintage International. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-4000-3454-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-3454-X).

## External links

v t e Works by Gabriel García Márquez Novels In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores Until August Short stories "Leaf Storm" "No One Writes to the Colonel" "Big Mama's Funeral" "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" "Strange Pilgrims" "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Non-fiction The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor The Fragrance of Guava Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale Other works El año de la peste The Solitude of Latin America Miscellaneous Macondo

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