Carlos Eire

Cuban-American historian at Yale — one of the Pedro Pan children who escaped Cuba without his parents in 1962 — author of Waiting for Snow in Havana (National Book Award, 2003) and A Very Brief History of Eternity — specialist in the Reformation and early modern Catholic history.

Creates the most intimate literary account of Castro's Cuba from the perspective of those who lost it — Waiting for Snow in Havana combines memoir and historical analysis to capture what Cubans experienced under the revolution in a way that abstract political history cannot.