Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University.
His memoir of the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction[2] and has been translated into many languages.
A second memoir, Learning to Die in Miami (November 2010) focuses on the early years of his exile in the United States.
[1] His mother was Maria Azucena Eiré González and his father was Antonio Nieto Cortadellas - a prominent judge before Fidel Castro's revolution.
[3] Eire (age 11) and his brother Tony fled to the United States in 1962, becoming another statistic of the 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children airlifted by Operation Peter Pan.