Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) was born in Brussels and grew up on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. His books include Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, Diary of Andrés Fava, Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, All Fires the Fire, We Love Glenda So Much, A Certain Lucas, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, Cronopios and Famas, and From the Observatory. He died in Paris.