Luisita López Torregrosa (born in 1943) is a Puerto Rican journalist, book author, editor, freelance writer, and professor.[1][2][3][4][5] She has reported from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. She has lived in Manila, Tokyo, and the United States. She is the author of The Noise of Infinite Longing,[6][7] published by Rayo/HarperCollins in 2004, and Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution,[8] which was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012 and nominated for best lesbian memoir at the 25th Lambda Literary Awards.
Luisita López Torregrosa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1943 Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | author, journalist |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Notable works | The Noise of Infinite Longing Before the Rain |
Life
editLuisita López Torregrosa is the daughter of Amaury López, who was a doctor, and of María Luisa Torregrosa, who was a beauty contest winner, lawyer, and founder of Farándula Bohemia, a touring theater company in Puerto Rico.[2][9] She is one of six siblings and grew up in Puerto Rico and Mexico City.[9] She went to boarding school at the age of fourteen at Linden Hall Academy, an all girls prep school outside Philadelphia, as she describes in her memoir The Noise of Infinite Longing.[1][2]
Torregrosa received a BA in English and journalism from Winthrop University in South Carolina in 1964.[10] She has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, at Fordham University, and at the University of Miami.[10] She has also been an assistant national editor and assistant styles editor at The New York Times, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a contributor at Condé Nast Traveler.[10] Her memoir Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution focuses on a relationship with a woman writer that led Torregrosa to live in the Philippines during the fall of president Ferdinand Marcos. Her memoirs have been analyzed by scholars such as Lourdes Torres and Carmen Haydée Rivera.[11][12] She has also been interviewed by leading Puerto Rican book critics such as Carmen Dolores Hernández.[13]
Publications
edit- The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--and an Island. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0060534605
- Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. ISBN 9780547669205
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "Luisita López Torregrosa." Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Contemporary Puerto Rican Writers in the United States. Carmen Haydée Rivera, ed. New York: CENTRO Press, 2023. 52-67. ISBN 979-8396590083
- ^ a b c Kunkle, Kathryn. "Faculty Faces: Luisita López Torregrosa." The Fordham Observer, December 9, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Loughlin, Wendy S. "Journalist Luisita Lopez Torregrosa to visit Newhouse School Nov. 9." Syracuse University News, October 20, 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Percopo, Luisa Andreana Maria. "López Torregrosa, Luisita." Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2009. 388-89. ISBN 9780313348594
- ^ Ortiz, Roberto Carlos. "Lopez Torregrosa, Luisita." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 1362-63. ISBN 9780313330599
- ^ Torregrosa, Luisita López. The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--and an Island. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0060534605
- ^ Marler, Regina. "My Mother, Myself: A Lesbian Daughter Provides a Rare Glimpse into Puerto Rican Family Life in a Somewhat Disconnected Memoir." The Advocate, March 30, 2004: 3. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Torregrosa, Luisita López. Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. ISBN 9780547669205
- ^ a b Volk, Patricia. "A Place and the Family That Left It but Never Forgot It." New York Times, April 23, 2004. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Luisita Torregrosa." LinkedIn. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Torres, Lourdes. "Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa." Meridians 19, issue S1 (December 2020): 279–307.
- ^ Rivera, Carmen Haydée. "Embracing Alternate Discourses on Migration: Giannina Braschi's and Luisita López Torregrosa's Multi-dimensional Literary Schemes." Umbral 8 (April 2014): 6-12, University of Puerto Rico.
- ^ Hernández, Carmen Dolores. "Del reportaje al recuerdo: Entrevista a Luisita López Torregrosa." El Nuevo Día, August 21, 2005.