{"product_id":"the-jewel-of-verse-ii-and-la-joya-del-verso-9781413429466","title":"The Jewel of Verse II and La Joya del Verso","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maria Holguin Morales-Hendry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI come from a family of high achievers and writers. My father, Alfredo Holguin Pombo, was president of a Mortgage Company and vice-president of El Banco de Colombia. He taught me to love poetry; my mother, Beatrice Murray Fairbanks de Holguin Cayzer wrote a newspaper column\" Buzzing With Bea\" for the Palm Beach Daily News for a period of fourteen years and four books, including \"Tales of Palm Beach\". My aunt Elaine Murray Stone has written twenty books among them a biography on Mother Theresa. Both my grandfathers were Ambassadors, my cousin Jorge Holguin, may he rest in peace, owned a Theatre Company and wrote books, among them \"MadreSelva; my great grandfather was president of Colombia. I am related to three other Colombian Presidents, to William Prescott who wrote \"The History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru\" in the 1800's; to Rafael Pombo, my great-great uncle who wrote Nursery Rhymes which are still read today by Colombian children; to Jonathan Fairbanks who built the oldest wooden frame house in the U.S.A. (Dedham, Mass.) and to Empress Eugenie Bonaparte, wife of Napoleon III. I have often wondered how I'm going to achieve as much as these and other family members. With these two books of English and Spanish poetry I hope to become a distinguished member of my family. I was married for twenty-two years to the artist Ricardo Morales-Hendry and we have two daughters: Vanessa and Veronica and a grandson, Tristan Anthony Virgo. I currently reside in West Palm Beach, Florida. U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47588997693591,"sku":"9781413429466","price":1286.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781413429466.webp?v=1774968649","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-jewel-of-verse-ii-and-la-joya-del-verso-9781413429466","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}