Alfredo José Estrada

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Alfredo José Estrada

Alfredo José Estrada is the author of Havana: Autobiography of a City and the novel Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway.Born in Havana, he was educated at Harvard and was editor-in-chief of Vista magazine, which is distributed in over 30 newspapers and is the largest publication for U.S. Hispanics in the country, with a monthly readership of over three million.Currently, he lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two sons.

Magazine publisher and author Alfredo Jose Estrada, who has written an historical novel about Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1933, explains it might be helpful to put the photo into historical context.
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"I think the ‘citizen' might have been a member of the ‘porrista,' " explained Estrada, a Harvard graduate who has done extensive research on 1930s Cuba for his book "Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway"(Vista Publishing, 2004).
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A black man dressed in a white linen suit and boater in the Havana of May 1933 is making quite a statement," Estrada said.
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"This subject is endlessly fascinating to me," said Estrada, who also is president of Vista, a magazine for Hispanics.

Alfredo José Estrada
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Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero.
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Alfredo José Estrada is the author of the novel Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway (Planeta 2005), hailed by the Washington Post as "marvelously entertaining" and a "fascinating portrayal of Cuba."Born in Havana, he was educated at Harvard and is editor-in-chief of Vista magazine, which is distributed in over thirty newspapers and is the largest publication for U.S. Hispanics in the country, with a monthly readership of over three million.Currently, he lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two sons. Praise for Havana"Havana: Autobiography of a City captures the imagination from the first page to the last.Brimming with curiosities, anecdotes, obscure facts and seductive personalities, the narrative reads as a blend of history, novel, and lyric essay.Estrada illuminates this legendary city as never before."
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"This is narrative history at its best: Alfredo José Estrada makes Havana come alive as a dynamic entity with its own personality, tracing its development from colonial days to the present.
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Estrada writes with passion and nuance."
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In the face of major changes ahead for Cuba, Estrada paints a thorough and amazing story of a people who have persevered and survived."
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Alfredo José Estrada disproves the old adage that Havana is a city that never changes.

By Alfredo José Estrada
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Estrada is editor-in-chief of Vista Magazine and the author of 'Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway,' a historical novel about Cuba in the 1930s.