Background
She was born in Malgrat de March (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Catalan father.
She was born in Malgrat de March (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Catalan father.
She later lived in the United States, studied in Columbia University, and spent the duration of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 – 1 April 1939) writing her Diario ("Diary") in Cuba. Her brother, José Camprubí, was owner and publisher of Louisiana Prensa, New York"s most important Spanish-language daily newspaper, from 1918 to 1942.