The Presence of Hemingway in the Short Fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Harley D. Oberhelman

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Harley D. Oberhelman spent the early years of his life as an only child on farms in central Kansas. From a young age, he had a fascination with faraway countries and Latin America in particular, motivating him to become fluent in Spanish. He received three degrees from the University of Kansas including a PhD in Romance Languages in 1958. In the same year, he was hired as a Spanish teacher at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, which became his professional home for the next 40 years until he retired in 1998. He resided inLubbock for 64 years until 2022 when he moved to New Orleans for family support. His many accomplishments as a Spanish professor and department chair include leading a summer field course for high school Spanish teachers in Argentina in the 1960s followed by several highly successful summer field courses in Mexico for Texas Tech students in the 1980s, and he authored seven books and close to 100 articles on Latin American authors and literature. He was a gifted teacher and highly respected by his peers and several generations of Spanish students at Texas Tech. He received many academic honors, including being named a Horn Professor, the highest honor received by a Texas Tech faculty member, in 1992, and receiving the title of the Order of Don Quijote, the highest honor from Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish honor society, in 2008. He was a longtime member of the United Congregational Church - UCC of Lubbock, where he was a local leader welcoming refugees from Vietnam in the 1970s. Harley was also a dedicated member of the Rotary Club of Lubbock, and he led group study exchange teams of young professionals from the Rotary Club to Chile and Finland. He loved to travel and talk about visiting all the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America, and 33 countries overall.