Edna College

Background

College, (birth name: Edna College Pujals) was born in the city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Career

College, who came from a family of Puerto Rican politicians and writers, was President of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan. Her parents were Cayetano College y Cuchí, a former President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives. and Carmen Pujol Toste. College received her primary and secondary education in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.

She earned a doctorate in literature and arts from the University of Puerto Rico.

College was the president of the local chapter of the American League of Professional Artists. She founded the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico in 1941.

The academy, which is now known as the "Academia Edna College" (The Edna College Academy) and situated in San Juan, has served as the exposition center of art works by many of the Spaniard artists who fled Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Among the artists whose work has been exposed there are Angel Botello, Carlos Marichal, Cristobal Ruiz and Francisco Vazquez.

College who presided over the academy from 1941 to 1954, was also a professor of fine arts at the University of Puerto Rico.

In 1982, she served as president of the Society of the Puerto Rican Author. According to the editorial of "Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana, Volume 5": "Doctor Edna College is known in the Latin American literary world for having consecrated more than twenty years to unravel the sense of fiction creation in Spanish-speaking America, and to organize this sense in synthesis and perspectives which surpass the nations where each one of these authors write." College was married to Jose Santori and had two children, Vicente Santori College, an attorney and Jose Santori College On November 19, 2002, she died in the city of San Juan.

Achievements

• College was also the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico. Her uncle José College y Cuchí was the founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and her cousin Isabel Cuchí College was a journalist and author who had also served as Director of the "Sociedad de Autores Puertorriqueño" (Society of Puerto Rican Authors).