Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Seville, 1836 - Madrid, 1870). His father was a famous painter of Spanish manners, of whom he was orphaned at the age of five. At the age of nine he was also an orphan of his mother. At the age of seventeen he left her godmother's house and renounced the position it provided to travel to Madrid in search of literary fortune. At first he had to carry out painful jobs, but then he found a position in the editorial office of El Contemporáneo and it was then that he wrote most of his legends and the Letters from my cell.

In 1862 he came to live with his brother Valeriano, famous in Seville for his pictorial production. Together they lived from day to day, one translating novels or writing articles; and the other drawing and painting. However, the stability of the brothers did not last long, in September 1870 Valeriano died and Gustavo became seriously ill, until he also died on December 22 of that same year.

Romantic author par excellence, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer left his rhymes and legends about him, which in posthumous editions gained him international fame.