Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician.

[3] As a young boy and then teenager, Arturo lived in various cities in the comparatively urbanised central northern valleys of the country.

[3] Uslar led a remarkably fruitful life, influential in Venezuelan politics, historical analysis and literature, and as an educator.

He held posts such as Secretary for the Venezuelan Delegation at the League of Nations, delegate at the International Labour Organization, minister of education, minister of finance,[4] contributor to the Act of Constitution of the New Democratic Government (1958), ambassador to the United States, professor of Latin American literature at Columbia University, professor of political economics at the Central University of Venezuela, chief editor of a main newspaper, candidate for the Presidency and member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

He wrote regionally influential essays and novels, of which The Red Lances,[7] an account of life during the Venezuelan War of Independence from various social perspectives is arguably the most famous.