He was born on July 15th, 1900 and died on December 2nd, 1968. He began working since his childhood. He was apprentice of shoemaker and of typographer and worked as delivery-boy of a laundry. (1913-1916). In 1918 he moved to Matanzas, where he worked as sugar cane weighter and, later, clerk in the sugar mill office. Back to Havana he worked in Dr. Fernando Ortiz’office, together with Rubén MartÃnez Villena (1920-1921). He was one of the participants at the Café Martà conversations and one of the so-called Grupo Minorista. Chief of correspondents and of information of El Mundo newspaper, literary director of Chic and editor of Excelsior, he collaborated with Cuba Contemporánea, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Gaceta del Caribe, Castalia, Luz, Futuro Social, El FÃgaro, Social, Carteles, Bohemia. From 1952 to 1959 he settled in Paris, where he worked as press attaché of the Cuban Embassy to France. After having returned to Cuba in 1959, he collaborated in El Mundo, Bohemia, Mar y Pesca, Unión. His story book Historias del juez was left unedited.
First Prize of Poetry in the contest summoned in 1925 by the Diario de la Marina. National Award on Novel by his work Contrabando in 1938. Award on Report conferred by the Ministry of Education in 1936, 1938 and 1939 by his works Raid Habana-Santiago, Oro en Isla de Pinos and Fracasará la Revolución en México. On a trip to Mexico he wrote for El PaÃs newspaper and was decorated with the Aztec Eagle. In 1946 the Varona Award was conferred to him. Among his works are: La miel de las horas, Felisa y yo, Noche de fiesta, Aletas de tiburón and La trampa.