Nobel author Gabo dead at 87

Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," is dead. He was 87.

Gabrial Garcia Marquez

He was the most significant Spanish-language author since Miguel de Cervantes, the 16th-century writer of my role model, "Don Quixote." Paula accuses me of “tilting at windmills” when I take on businesses (often successfully) for reimbursements. When we were in Spain, I made a point of giving a thank-you pat to Rocinante, the horse Don Quixote was riding in the sculpture.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared three days of national mourning, ordering flags at half-staff.

Known by his nickname "Gabo" in Latin America, Marquez was one of 11 children of a telegraph operator and was born in the northern Colombian town of Aracataca, which became the inspiration for Macondo, the town at the center of "Solitude," his 1967 masterpiece.

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