Background
Ramon Gomez de la Serna was born on July 3, 1888 in Madrid, Spain, in the family of Javier Gomez de la Serna y Laguna and Josefa Puig Coronado. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Gomez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist.