Background
Néstor González was born on September 8, 1915, in Romblon, Philippines. He was the son of Pente González and Paz Gonzalez. Néstor González was raised in Mansalay, a southern town of the Philippine province of Oriental Mindoro.
JP Rizal, Calapan, 5200 Oriental Mindoro, Philippines
Oriental Mindoro National High School where Néstor González studied.
Gonzalez on a 2015 stamp of the Philippines.
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1956
Néstor González was born on September 8, 1915, in Romblon, Philippines. He was the son of Pente González and Paz Gonzalez. Néstor González was raised in Mansalay, a southern town of the Philippine province of Oriental Mindoro.
Néstor González studied at Oriental Mindoro National High School from 1927 to 1930. He also attended college at National University. However, González was unable to receive his undergraduate degree.
González attended creative writing classes under Wallace Stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford University.
In 1987, González received the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of the Philippines.
Néstor González began his career in the mid-1930s as a journalist. He wrote articles for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for the Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle. González also was a founding editor of The Diliman Review. In 1950, he took up a post of lecturer at the University of the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas and the Philippine Women's University. González later taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California State University, Hayward, the University of Washington, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1968 he received a Visiting Associate Professorship in English from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Néstor González published his first essay in the Philippine Graphic and his first work appeared in 1940. It was a volume of short stories titled The Winds of April. In 1947 he published a novel Seven Hills Away. His novel The Bamboo Dancers was published in 1961. His last novel was A Grammar of Dreams and The Novel of Justice, that was published in 1997.
(A novel by one of the foremost Filipino authors. Presente...)
1956(Collection of thirteen essays. Published in a very small ...)
1992Néstor González married Narita Manuel Gonzalez. The marriage produced four children.