Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer, publisher, editor and political activist from Colombia.

Marquez was raised by his Grandmother. He went to a Jesuit college but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper and has since lived mostly abroad. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and continues to work as a journalist.

• 1954: Leaf Storm
• 1967: One Hundred Years of Solitude
• 1970: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
• 1975: The Autumn of the Patriarch
• 1981: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• 1985: Love in the Time of Cholera
• 1989: The General in His Labyrinth
• 1994: Of Love and Other Demons
• 2004: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

• March 6, 1927: Born in Aracataca, Magdelena, Colombia

• 1947: Studied Law and Journalism National University of Columbia

• 1958: Married Mercedes Barcha

• 1961: Moves to Mexico City

• 1982: Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

• 1999: Diagnosed with Lymphatic Cancer

• Note: The following links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups

• IMDb: Complete Gabriel Garcia Marquez Filmography

• 1990: The Two Way Mirror

• 1992: Saturday Night Thief

• 2007: Love in the Time of Cholera