About the Author

A short biography ​
Getting to Know 'Gabo'  - an interview with Oprah in 1982
​Tribute to Gabriela Garcia Marquez - NPR
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Lecture - given in 1982
Nobel author Gabriel García Márquez wins 17-year legal fight over murder classic - from The Guardian, 2011
Gabriela Garcia Marquez's Road Trip Through Alabama - article in The Paris Review

General Resources

Some facts about Colombia - from Countries and Their Cultures
The murder story that inspired the novel - translated extract from Marquez's autobiography
What is magical realism? - Moore, 1998
Whodunnit? A Textual Investigation of the Deflowering of Angela Vicario in Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Paul Lehmann
Sporting for Love - a blog post by a student about the opening quotation at the start of the novel

Reading Notes

Timeline of events in the novel - could use more detail
Notes on Chapter One
Notes on Chapter Two
Notes on Chapter Three
Notes on Chapter Four
Notes on Chapter Five