Ángel Esteban was born in Saragossa in 1963 and is a doctor of Hispanic philology and a professor in Hispanic-American literature at the University of Granada. In recent years he has also been a tutor of literature at Delaware and Montclair State Universities in the United States. He is a visiting lecturer at over 30 universities around the world, and has written several studies on writers and their lives and work. In 2002 he co-wrote When the Muses Arrive: How the Great Masters of Literature Work, with Raúl Cremades, and in 2004 he published Gabo and Fidel, the Landscape of a Friendship, with Stéphanie Panichelli; and in 2008, From Gabo to Mario. The Boom Lineage, with Ana Gallego. All three are published by Espasa Calpe. His work has been translated into eight languages: French, English, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Portuguese. The Lineage of Babel is his first novel.