A native of Cuba, Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale. He has a Ph.D. from Yale, and honorary doctorates from Colgate, the University of South Florida, and Columbia. In 1999 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Medal for the Humanities. A speaker of Spanish, English, French and Italian, González Echevarría covers Spanish, Latin American, French, and Italian literatures. The author of many books in English and Spanish, his Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative won awards from the Modern Language Association of America and the Latin American Studies Association. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball won the first Dave Moore Award (Most Important Book on Baseball). In 2005 Yale published his Love and the Law in Cervantes. He has written for The New York Times Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The Nation, and USA Today. His work has appeared in Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Italian and Persian.