Gabriel García Márquez in the eyes of those who knew him

Paternostro talks about finding plenty of others who'd talk, Márquez's superstitions and discipline, and more.

The journalist Silvana Paternostro was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, the place where Gabriel García Márquez congregated with friends and fellow writers, several of whom became characters in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Paternostro had moved to the US as a teen before she grasped Márquez’s towering importance for herself. Later, she would attend a three-day journalism workshop led by the author. In writing Solitude & Company, her oral history of the Nobel Prize winner’s life before and after he found fame, she learned that several people closest to the author (his friends called him Gabo) had essentially taken