Alba de Céspedes

About the Author

Alba was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and Laura Bertini y Alessandri, his Italian wife. A distant cousin of hers was Perucho Figueredo and her grandpa was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who is the father of the nation of Cuba. She worked as a journalist during the 1930s for Epoca, Piccolo, and La Stampa. She wrote her first novel in 1935, called “L’Anima Degli Altri”. Her fiction writing was influenced greatly by the cultural developments which lead to and resulted from World War II. In her writing, Alba instills her female characters with subjectivity. Her work features a recurring motif of women judging the rightness and wrongness of their actions. She was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy in 1935. Her novels were also banned. Alba de Céspedes is the author of over 3 books across 1 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of Standalone Novels series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Alba de Céspedes has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.