Vicente Grez
Vicente Grez Yávar (21 January 1847 – 1 June 1909) was a Chilean politician, journalist, and writer. Family and education Vicente Grez Yávar was born in Santiago in 1847, the son of Manuel Grez and Manuela Yávar. He studied humanities at the National Institute after some elementary courses at San Luis College. He entered law school, but his literary interests led him to drop out. He married Mercedes Mulet on 4 February 1867 at the . They had one son. Journalistic and literary career Grez began his work in journalism in 1868 as editor of El Charivari, a satirical political publication. He also collaborated, under various pseudonyms, on publications such as La Linterna del Diablo, with caustic verses lampooning public figures. These early activities as a journalist shaped the rest of his life, leading to jobs as editor and publisher of the newspapers El Heraldo, La Época, La República, La Campana, La Patria (of which he was director from 1893 to 1894), La Opinión, and El Mercurio, and the magazines La Revista de Santiago, Sud-América, Las Veladas Literarias, Las Novedades, El Nuevo Ferrocarril, Los Debates, Los Lunes, El Salín and Revista de Artes y Letras. In his first books he