Ricardo Palma

Ricardo Palma (born February 7, 1833, Lima, Peru—died October 6, 1919, Lima) was a Peruvian writer best known for his collected legends of colonial Peru, one of the most popular collections in Spanish American literature. At age 20 Palma joined the Peruvian navy and in 1860 was forced by political exigencies to flee to Chile, where he devoted himself to journalism. Six years later he returned to Lima to join the revolutionary movement against Spain....