No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again

Author Edgardo Vega Yunqué was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico in 1936. He moved to New York with his family in 1949 and joined the Air Force after finishing high school. He attended Santa Monica College and New York University. His first short story, Wild Horses, was published in Nuestro magazine in 1977 and his first novel, The Comeback, was published in 1985. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote over 15 novels and 3 collections of short stories including Mendoza's Dreams, Casuality Report, Blood Fugues, and The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle. He founded the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and was its director from 1993 to 2000. He died on August 25, 2008 at the age of 72.

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