Trini de Figueroa

Trinidad de Figueroa y Gómez was born on 17 May 1918 in Valencia, Spain, the daughter of Marcos de Figueroa and Trinidad Gómez y Padilla, both Andalusians. An exceptional student, she studied Higher Baccalaureate at the Provincial Institute of Valencia (now, Instituto Lluís Vives [es]). She received her B.A. degree in 1936, having finished with Honors in the State Examination, after a record full of honors. She married Leopoldo Baldomero Botella y Gómez de Luzón with whom she started a family. She began publishing romantic novels in 1946, encouraged by her former literature teacher, who at that time was publishing for Editorial Pueyo using a pseudonym. In addition to the Pueyo publishing house, her novels were published by Bruguera, Rollán and Editorial Andina. She lived in Ibiza until her death on Iberia Flight 602, which crashed on 7 January 1972 and killed all those on board.^[1][2]