Life story of nick joaquin

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Image: National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He was the greatest Filipino writer of his generation. Over six decades and a half, he produced a body of work unmatched in richness and range by any of his contemporaries. He was born to a home deeply Catholic, educated, and prosperous. Leocadio was a procurador attorney in the Court of First Instance of La Laguna, where he met and married his first wife, at the time of the Philippine Revolution.

He shortly joined the insurrection, had the rank of colonel, and was wounded in action.

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When the hostilities ceased and the country came under American rule, he built a successful practice in law. He was unsuccessful however when he made a bid for a seat in the Philippine Assembly representing Laguna. Though still in her teens when the United States took possession of the Philippines, she was among the first to be trained by the Americans in English, a language she taught in a Manila public school before she left teaching after her marriage.

There were ten children in the family, eight boys and two girls, with Nick as the fifth child. In the manner of fathers of his time, Leocadio must have been a presence both distant and dominant. He was already an accomplished man when Nick was born. Among other changes, he was unable to pursue the religious vocation that his strictly Catholic family had envisioned to be his future.

This got him started on what would be a lifelong association with the world of print. Through this time he pursued a passion for reading.