Carmen Martín Gaite (8 December 1925 – 23 July 2000) was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres.

Thus, instead of attending a religiously affiliated school in her early years, Martín Gaite was taught at home by private tutors and her father, who was fascinated by history and literature.

There, she was taught by Rafael Lapesa and Salvador Fernández Ramírez, future members of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy).

In 1943, she studied philosophy at the University of Salamanca, where she was taught by Francisco Maldonado, Antonio Tovar, Manuel García Calvo, and Alonso Zamora Vicente.

[3] Significant members of this circle were Medardo Fraile, Alfonso Sastre, Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Jesús Fernández Santos, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Josefina Aldecoa, and Carlos Edmundo de Ory.