Gilberto Freyre was born on March 15, 1900 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Inventário de um Feudalismo Cultural Nordestino ou uma Fricção Histórico Existencial (1978), Casa-Grande e Senzala (2000) and Abolição (1988). He was married to Maria Magdalena Guedes Pereira. He died on July 18, 1987 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.