Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Spanish novelist Ramon Perez de Ayala was born in Oveido, Spain, into a middle-class family. He was educated at two Jesuit institutions, one of which was a seminary and both of which he hated. He studied science and law at the secular University of Oveido. It was while at the university that he began publishing articles, and in 1903 his first book...