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NVM Gonzales

He was born on 8 September 1915 in Romblon, Philippines. González, however, was raised in Callahan City, the capital of the Philippine province of Oriental Mindoro. Gonzales was a son of a school supervisor and a teacher. As a teenager, he helped his father by delivering meat door-to-door across provincial villages and municipalities. Gonzales was also a musician. He played the violin and even made four guitars by hand. He earned his first peso by playing the violin during a Chinese funeral in Romblon. Gonzales attended Mindoro High School (now José) from 1927 to 1930. Gonzalez attended college at National University (Manila) but he was unable to finish his undergraduate degree. While in Manila, Gonzalez wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for the Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle. His first published essay appeared in the Philippine Graphic and his first poem in Poetry in 1934. Gonzalez made his mark in the Philippine writing community as a member of the Board of Advisers of Lichen: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, founding editor of The Dalian Review and as the first president of the Philippine Writers' Association. Gonzalez attended creative writing classes under Wallace Sterner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford University. In 1950, Gonzalez returned to the Philippines and taught at the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippine Women's University and the University of the Philippines (U.P.). At U.P., Gonzalez was only one of two faculty members accepted to teach in the university without holding a degree. On the basis of his literary publications and distinctions, Gonzalez later taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California State University, Hayward, the University of Washington, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley.

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