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I dont want to be remembered forOne Hundred Years of Solitudeor for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism, Gabriel Garca Mrquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his careeryears during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquillahis 1950 account of a shipwreck, which implicated the Colombian navy in smuggling and resulted in Mrquezs swift assignment to Europe where, self-exiled, he would live and write for many yearshis longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Romehis monthly columns for Spains El Pas. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be the best in the world.