Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was born in Yonkers, New York. One of the most respected translators of his generation, he brought the work of many writers into English--among them Machado de Assis, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa. He was the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, and the first National Book Award in Translation.

Álvaro Enrigue has been a fellow in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de México, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the program in Latin American studies at Princeton University. He is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, among them Sudden Death, Now I Surrender, and You Dreamed of Empires. He teaches at Hofstra University.

"When the true history of our literature--and not an apology for it--comes to be written, Manuel Mujica Lainez will at last be seen as a benefactor. He brings back to contemporary writing the sense of destiny, of adventure with its hopes and fears, the tradition of Stevenson, Hugo, and--why not?--Ariosto.... An attentive reader of the great Russians and of Henry James, Mujica Lainez gives us that special delight of intimate portraiture, of watching the gradual unfolding of personality."
--Jorge Luis Borges

"Mujica Lainez's novel is a literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color . . . There is no reason Bomarzo should be less well known in English than Hopscotch or One Hundred Years [of Solitude]."
-- Michael Robbins, Book Post