Rachel de Queiroz was born on November 17, 1910 in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. She was a writer, known for O Cangaceiro (1953), Memorial de Maria Moura (1994) and O Quinze (2004). She was married to Oyama de Macedo and José Auto da Cruz Oliveira. She died on November 4, 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.