HG Carrillo, writer
Herman "HG" Carrillo ‑ an American writer and Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC – contracted Covid-19 and died on April 20, 2020.
In the 1990s, he began writing as "H. G. Carrillo", and he eventually adopted that identity in his private life as well, claiming to have been a Cuban immigrant who had left Cuba with his family at the age of 7. Carrillo wrote frequently about the Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, including in his only novel, Loosing My Espanish (2004).
Carrillo kept his true identity hidden from even close acquaintances, including his husband, whom he married in 2015. Only after his death did the true details of his life become publicly known, after several members of his family ...