Manuel Méndez Ballester

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Manuel Méndez Ballester
Don Manuel Méndez Ballester
Born	August 4, 1909 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Died	January 24, 2002

Manuel Méndez Ballester (4 August 1909 – 24 January 2002), born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, was a well known writer who worked in journalism, radio broadcasting, television and teaching.

[edit] Life and career

He attended primary education in his native city. In New York, where there would be to reside by space of some time, he initiates the secondary school, that more ahead, after its return to Puerto Rico, would have to complete by free studies. Adolescent still, and been urgent for reasons of economic nature, passes a to work like clerk, in several commercial houses of Aguadilla and San Juan. He will later serve in the offices of the Court of District of Aguadilla, and later, during several years, he will also exert in that population the Secretariat of the Administrator of the Central Colossus, task that allows him to be related of first hand to the social life, customs and problematic of the agricultural field of the sugar cane, knowledge that more ahead would have to be from great value for the development of his first relations to him like dramatist. By these years he begins to participate as become fond of in some theater representations and one begins in addition in the culture to literary necessities in quality of collaborator and editor of aguadillanas periodic publications Watchtower and Letters, that come to the light for second half of 1931, second mentioned under the direction of Juan Pagán Baptist. Later Méndez Ballester in the University of Puerto Rico, Piedras River enters, seeking to become lawyer, but before finalizing the first year of studies the economic narrowness she forces it to leave the classrooms. It remains at that time in the Capital dedicated to workings of performance and direction of radial programs in the School of the Air of the Department of Public Instruction. There he returns to the University in the 1935 to follow a course of rating of teachers for workers whom the Administration of Reconstruction of Puerto Rico sponsored. Together with Francisco Manrique Cabrera and Fernando Sierra Berdecía he organizes a rolling theater that will cross the Island in cultural mission between the workers of the cane and in whose activities Méndez Ballester like become fond of actor of talent stands out. One is interested in the study of chronicles on the conquest and beginnings of the colonization of Puerto Rico, in search of materials for the literary elaboration in the field of the historical novel, of whose persistence he would have to arise the work Roaming Island, that was published in 1937.One of his books was (Bienvenido Don goyito).