Trapiello Andrés was born in Manzaneda of thorium, Leon, in 1953. Since 1975 lives in Madrid. He is the author of the novels Sympathetic Ink (1988), The Ghost Ship (1992), La malandanza (1996), Days and Nights (2000), Friends of the perfect crime (2003), When dying Don Quixote (2004) and The confines (2009); a book about the maquis in Madrid, Night of the Cuatro Caminos (2001), and a daily titled Hall of Lost Steps, which leads published sixteen deliveries, which appeared all in the publishing Pre-Texts. As an essayist has published, among others, the lives of Miguel de Cervantes (1993), Weapons and letters. Literature and civil war (1936-1939) (1994) Grandchildren del Cid. The new golden age (1898-1914) (1997), The ark of the words (2006) and modern printing. Typography and literature (1874-2005) (2006).
His first four books of poems have met Traditions (1991), volume that followed perhaps a truth (Pre-Textos, 1993), Rama naked (2001) and A dream in another (2004).