page_title: List of Puerto Ricans
section_title: Authors, playwrights and poets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Puerto Ricans / Authors, playwrights and poets
caption_attribution_description: English: José Rivera, Puerto Rican playwright
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The Government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans.
  The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notable in more than one field, such as Luis A. Ferré, who is notable both as a former governor and as an industrialist. However, the custom is to place the subject's name under the category for which he/she is most noted.
context_section_description: A
  Jack Agüeros, author, playwright, poet and translator
  Quiara Alegría Hudes, author, playwright; wrote the book for the Broadway musical In the Heights; winner of 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 and has been performed around the country and in Romania and Brazil
  Miguel Algarín, poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café
  Manuel A. Alonso, poet and author, considered by many to be the first Puerto Rican writer of notable importance
  Alba Ambert, novelist; in 1996 became the first Hispanic author to win the Carey McWilliams Award for Multicultural Literature, presented by the Multicultural Review, for her novel A Perfect Silence
  Francisco Arriví, writer, poet, and playwright; known as "the father of the Puerto Rican theater"
  Rane Arroyo, poet, playwright and scholar
  B
  Pura Belpré, author; first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City
  Samuel Beníquez, author of the autobiographical book Tu alto precio ... Mi gran valor
  María Bibiana Benítez, playwright, poet
  Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier, poet whose collaboration with the "Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño" (collection of Puerto Rican poetry) gave her recognition as a great poet
  Tomás Blanco, writer and historian;  author of Prontuario Historico de Puerto Rico and El Prejuicio Racial en Puerto Rico (Racial Prejudice in Puerto Rico)
  Juan Boria, Afro-Caribbean poet, also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh; known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry
  Giannina Braschi, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow; author of the bestselling Spanglish classic Yo-Yo Boing! and United States of Banana
  C
  María Cadilla Colón de Martínez, writer, educator and women's rights activist
  Zenobia Camprubí, writer/poet (Puerto Rican mother); wife of Nobel Prize winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez
  Nemesio Canales, essayist and poet
  Jesús Colón, writer; "father of the Nuyorican Movement"
  Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, poet, journalist and politician; defended the abolition of slavery and the establishment of a University in Puerto Rico
  Juan Antonio Corretjer, poet, journalist and pro-independence political activist (member of the Nationalist Party) who opposed United States rule in Puerto Rico
  D
  Nicholas Dante, 'Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is best known for the worldwide musical hit A Chorus Line
  José Antonio Dávila, well-known poet during Puerto Rico's postmodern era of poetry
  Virgilio Dávila, poet, considered by many to be one of Puerto Rico's greatest representatives of the modern literary era
  Julia de Burgos, poet
  Eugenio María de Hostos, wrote La Peregrinación de Bayoán, the founding text of Puerto Rican literature (see also "Educators" and "Politicians")
  Caridad de la Luz a.k.a. "La Bruja", poet; writer/actor of Boogie Rican Blvd
  Nelson Denis, author, novelist; Editorial Director of El Diario La Prensa; New York State Assemblyman
  Jaquira Díaz, writer, journalist
  Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, writer
  E
  Sandra María Estéves, Nuyorican poet
  F
  Héctor Feliciano, author; his book The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art has shed light on an estimated 20,000 looted works; each one is owned by a museum or a collector somewhere
  Isabel Freire de Matos, writer, educator and advocate of Puerto Rican independence
  Rosario Ferré, writer
  Shaggy Flores, Nuyorican writer, poet; African diaspora scholar; founder of Voices for the Voiceless
  Félix Franco Oppenheimer, poet and writer; works include Contornos, Imagen y visión edénica de Puerto Rico, and Antología poética
  G
  Magali García Ramis, writer
  José Gautier Benítez, leading Puerto Rican poet of the Romantic Era
  José Luis González, one of the most prominent writers of the 20th century, particularly for his El país de cuatro pisos (1980)
  Migene González Wippler, new-age author, Santería researcher
  H
  Víctor Hernández Cruz, poet; in 1969, became the first Hispanic to be published by a mainstream publishing house when Random House published his poem "Snaps;" in 1981, Life Magazine named him one of America's greatest poets
  L
  Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes,
caption: José Rivera, playwright
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