Author. He has received international acclaim for his contributions in the category of poetry and drama in Spanish literature during the early 20th Century. Born in the small town of Fuente Vaqueros as the eldest son of a prosperous farmer and to a mother, who was a pianist and school teacher, he was well-educated in Catholic schools. He published his first book, “Impresiones Y Viajes” in 1919, and after leaving law school at the University of Granada, he traveled to Madrid to begin his writing career. In 1920 he produced his first full-length play, “ The Butterfly's Evil Spell,” and the next year, published a collection of poems based on Spanish folklore, “Libro de poemas.” In 1922, he collaborated with the political conservative and composer Manuel de Falla to organize the first Song Festival in Granada. He did finish his law degree but never practiced. He became a part of the Generation 27, which was a group of Spanish artists and writers who supported the most avant-garde forms of art and poetry. Members of this group included Salvador Dali, Jorge Guillen, and Luis Bunuel, who exposed up-and-coming artists to surrealism. With his 1928 collection of poems, “Gypsy Ballard,” receiving positive reviews and reprinted seven times during his lifetime, he was on the road to success. Besides Spanish folklore, his poems were about Andalusian flamenco, Gypsy culture, and both love and tragedy. In 1928, Dali, acting as an intimate close friend, encouraged him to have a solo public exhibition of his sketches, which had been produced by the hundreds during his lifetime. From 1929 through 1930, he traveled to New York City to study poetry at Columbia University then Cuba. He soon learned that acclaimed fame caused the loss of personal privacy. Upon returning, he started touring Spain in early 1931 with the theater group La Barraca. In 1933, he traveled to Argentina and was interviewed for a local magazine. In 1935, he wrote a successful collection of poems,“Lament for a Bullfighter,” which honored a dear friend, Ignacio Sanchez Mejia, who was gored to death at the age of 43. Two of his three-act tragedies, that are considered masterpieces, were “Blood Wedding” in 1933 and “The House of Bernarda Alba” in 1936, which was never performed before an audience during his lifetime. Criticism toward him had intensified as the tension built prior to the Spanish Civil War. Both ambassadors of Mexico and Columbia offered him means for being exile to their country, but he denied the offers as he would have to leave his home and loved ones. De Falla attempted to reason with the officials. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was arrested in Granada on August 16, 1936. The charges were his liberal thinking and sexual orientation. He was never a member of a political party. Some historians claim that, without a trial, he was murdered by a firing squad of Franco Forces two or three days after the arrest. Thousands of others were being executed: school teachers, bullfighters, members of the local government, other educated professionals and even his brother-in-law. He was shot kneeling in front of a wall; the holes in the red bricks are still there; and at one time, a historical marker documented what happened on that spot. He was buried nearby in an unmarked mass grave in the hills of El Barranoco de Viznar, and no one has located the site even after seriously looking. Annually on August 19th, locals have a midnight-to-dawn flamenco as a tribute to the anniversary of his death. After his death, his collection of poems dealing with social injustice and urban decay,“Poet in New York' was published in 1940. His family's old home, Huerta de San Vicente, is now a whitewashed museum with a rose garden. His works were outlawed with many burnt, and for years, even his name was forbidden to be spoken. For many, he became a martyr, an international symbol of the politically oppressed. His plays were not revived until the late 1940's and there were bans in placed on certain books until 1971. He wrote volumes of poems. In 1928 he had contributed to the literary magazine, “Gallo,” but only two publications can be found. Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas produced one of his most important pieces for a chamber orchestra, “Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca,” which debuted November 14, 1936. A full-size statue of him is located in the Plaza de Santa Ana in Madrid. The room in the Hotel Castelar in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which was his residence during six months in 1933, is now a museum. Many of his poems have been translated into English, yet most agree the musical flow of the words was lost in the translation.