[2] Assigned to Sohatu, Ilfov County, he left Vrancea for Bucharest and became guildmaster of carters transporting grain from the scaffolds of Giurgiu and Oltenița.

[2] Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea spent the first years of life with his father, then learned to read and write with deacon Ion Pestreanu from New St. George Church.

He worked as a substitute teacher at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, journalist, lawyer (notable is the Caion trial, filed to Ion Luca Caragiale in conjunction with the paternity of drama The Scourge, when in the courtroom, to listen to the arguments of lawyers, was entered only upon invitation[clarification needed]), and writer (novelist and playwright).

[7] In 1887 he led, for a short period, Lupta Literară, and the following year he became editor of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu's magazine Revista Nouă and a collaborator to Democrația and Voința națională.

[6] Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea is widely known especially for his historical trilogy, Apus de soare (1909), Viforul (1910), and Luceafărul (1910), works full of romantic breath.