The Historical Background of One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Ursula Berg, Melissa Reich, Carly Faulkner

Banana Co. By Radiohead

House in Arcataca

Luisa Márquez de García and Gabriel Eligio García

Taken in Paris shortly before winning the Nobel Prize in 1982, this photo shows the author with his wife Mercedes and their

son, Gonzalo.

1982. García Márquez with his new Nobel Prize.

Works Cited

• http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_images.html

• http://home1.worldonline.nl/~hanneswa/paginas/macondoproject.html

• Ed. Bloom, Harold. Gabriel García Márquez. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

• “The United Fruit Company”. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company.