Emilio J. Pasarell was a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rican people

A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...

 short-story writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, novelist, and essayist. He was also an accomplished historian.

Origin

Pasarell was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

 in 1891, the son of Manuel Pasarell-Mila de la Rosa (also known as Manuel Pasarell y Mila de la Rosa).

Works

Some of Pasarell's writings include the careful documentation of the history of Teatro Tapia

Teatro Tapia

The Teatro Tapia, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is presumed to be the oldest free-standing drama stage building still in use in the United States. It is named after the poet and dramatist Alejandro Tapia y Rivera .-Location:...

 and Ripples on the Surface of Great Themes. He also wrote Orígenes y desarrollo de la afición teatral en Puerto Rico, where he describes the life of Antonio Paoli

Antonio Paolí

Antonio Paoli was a Puerto Rican tenor. He was known at the height of his fame as "The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings." He is considered to be the first Puerto Rican to reach international fame in the musical arts...

 in great detail.

Legacy

Emilio Pasarell is recognized, along with a handful of other Ponce historians, at Ponce's Park of Illustrious Ponce Citizens.

External links

• Celebrating culture: Space, symbols, and tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean

See also

• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of Famous Puerto Ricans
• Puerto Rican literature