Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja was born in San Sebastián in 1872. He studied medicine in Valencia and Madrid, where he defended a doctoral thesis, practised briefly as a country doctor in Cestona, in Guipúzcoa, then ran the family bakery in Madrid. He then devoted himself to writing and became one of the main novelists of the Generation of '98, author of numerous novels grouped in cycles. Hemingway, who claimed him as an influence, came to see him shortly before his death. He died in Madrid in 1956.

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• NovelThe Tree of KnowledgeEl árbol de la cienciaPío Baroja · 1911Literature