Federico García Lorca was "a child of genius beyond question," declared Jorge Guillen in Language and Poetry. A Spanish poet and dramatist, García Lorca was at the height of his fame in 1936 when he was executed by fascist rebels at the age of thirty-eight; in the years thereafter, Guillen suggested, the writer's prominence in European culture matched that of his countryman Pablo Picasso. García Lorca's work has been treasured by a broad spectrum of the reading public throughout the world; his complete works have been reprinted in Spain almost every year since the 1950s, and it has been argued that he remains more widely recognized in the English-speaking world than any Spanish writer except Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. According to Andrew A. Anderson in Gay and Lesbian Biography, "García Lorca ranks as Spain's most famous twentieth-century author...