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Frank Rivera was born in Vertientes, Cuba, in 1938, and graduated with a BA from Camagüey College in 1955.
After receiving a scholarship from the West German goverment, he left for Europe in 1961. Six years later he graduated at the University of Munich with an MA in German and Romance Philology.
He came to the U.S. in 1968 and joined the Associated Press. where he worked as a translator, a newsman and an Entertainment editor until 2006, when he retired.
During those years he published, among other titles, "Introducción a la literatura española", a survey of Spanish literature with co-autor Mario Hurtado (New York: 1976, 2d. edit. 1982), "Las sabanas y el tiempo", (Miami: 1986, 2d. edit. 2004), "Cuentos cubanos" (Miami: 1992), "Varadero y otros cuentos cubanos" (Miami: 1998). Selections from this last title, narrated by the author, are available on an audiobook from CORAL COMMUNICATIONS also on Amazon.com.
Rivera also wrote and narrated for CORAL COMMUNICATIONS a series on the Golden Age of the Spanish Literature, under the general title "El Siglo de Oro". Some units of that series ara also available con Amazon.com.
About his short stories has been said that their dominant elements are "the consistency of style and the versatility of the genre. Behind each word we can trace an unrelenting course towards a revelation that is always cunning and often hair-rising".
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