Benito Pérez Galdós
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Emerging from a modest family in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he attended the San Agustín school, earned a bachillerato in arts on Tenerife and moved to Madrid to begin, but not complete, a law degree, while mingling with the Ateneo’s intellectual circles that shaped his early journalism and novels such as La Fontana de Oro (1870) and El Audaz (1871). A prolific writer, he authored thirty-one major…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources