José Eustasio Rivera

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José Eustasio Rivera (February 19, 1888 - December 1, 1928) was a Colombian politician and writer who worked as a lawyer in the arrangement of the limits between Colombia and Venezuela, when he could visit the flatlands and the tropical jungle, places that greatly influenced his works.

Rivera's short labour as a writer began with Tierra de promisión (1921), which is a compilation of poems written in a modernist style, and ended with his most known work La Vorágine.

Children

Rivera never married. But he had a child, though it is probably not acknowledged in his biographies. Maybe be cause they don't know. In any case, he had a child with his housekeeper, Ana Adelina Saenz. She gave birth to a boy named Pedro Saenz Herandez, whom Rivera refused to acknowledge as his son.