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Isabel García Lorca was born in Granada in 1909 and died in Madrid on January 9, 2002. She was the youngest sister of Federico, Concha, and Francisco García Lorca. When she was eight years old, her parents put her education in the hands of Gloria Giner, the wife of Fernando de los Ríos. Isabel began her college studies in Granada in 1929 and continued in Madrid from 1932 until 1934. She studied Philosophy and Letters and was the student of Guillén, Salinas, and García Morente. She went into exile during the Spanish Civil War, first to Brussels and later to the Unites States, where she became a professor at the New Jersey College for Women, then at Hunter College in New York, and later, at Sarah Lawrence College. She returned to Spain in 1951 and participated in the creation of the Association of College Women in 1955. After Franco’s death, she regained her position as a literature professor at the Pardo Bazán School in Madrid. Since 1984, she presided over the García Lorca Foundation, which manages the legacy of the poet and artist from Granada, a job to which she dedicated all of her efforts. She died when she had only to put the finishing touches to these memoirs.