Benjamín Jarnés

Benjamín Jarnés Y Millán (October 7, 1888–August 11, 1949) was a Spanish writer.

His second novel El profesor inútil (The Useless Professor, 1926) met with success and was followed by books such as El convidado de papel (1928) and Teoría del zumbel (1930).

He was one of the contributors of the Madrid-based Revista de Occidente[1] and the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934.

[2] He fought on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, and after General Franco's victory, he fled to Mexico.

He turned his attention to writing biographies of writers such as Stefan Zweig and Miguel de Cervantes.