Rachel's Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780915306879)

Miguel Barnet (born January 27, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimmar (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who lived as a maroon after escaping slavery in the Caribbean. In 2009, Barnet was re-elected to a UNESCO committee on the study of Afro-Cuban culture.

W. Nick Hill is an American teacher and translator. Hill was a professor and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Farfield University, until his retirement in 2005. He currently lives in Port Townsend, Washington.