The Life Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and popularized the genre of magical realism, died on Thursday at the age of 87.

Cuban President Fidel Castro chats with Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (R) during a gala dinner marking the Havana Festival celebrating famous Cuban cigars, in this March 4, 2000 file photo.

Raul Castro (L), then chief of Cuba's army and brother of then Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (C) and Nicaraguan novelist Tomas Borge (R) attend a military parade in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution in Havana in this December 2, 2006 file photo.

Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) and his wife Mercedes leave after the inauguration of the Universal Forum of the Cultures in Monterrey in this September 20, 2007 file photo.

Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez gestures upon his arrival at Diagonal Palace in Barcelona in this April 28, 2005 file photo.

Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez listens to a speech during the New Journalism Prize awards ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Monterrey in this October 2, 2007 file photo.

Gonzalo Garcia Barcha (L, rear), son of Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, looks out of the door of Garcia Marquez home as a communique is being read to the media in Mexico City April 17, 2014.

A wreath hangs in front of the house of Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Aracataca April 17, 2014.

People and police stand outside the funeral home where the body of Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was taken in a hearse in Mexico City April 17, 2014