José Moreno Villa Author

Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet, and The Complete Perfectionist, all published by Swan Isle Press. José Moreno Villa (1887-1955) was a Spanish painter, poet, and mentor in the Residencia de Estudiantes to the generation of García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dalí.  He was also an essayist, literary critic, archivist, and memoirist. During the Spanish Civil War he worked briefly as a Republican cultural attaché in Washington and went into exile in Mexico.