Jesús Evaristo Casariego Fernández-Noriega
Jesús Evaristo Díaz-Casariego y Fernández-Noriega (7 November 1913 – 16 September 1990) was a Spanish writer and publisher, popular especially during the early and mid-Francoism. Among some 60 books and booklets he wrote most are popular and semi-scientific historiographic works, though he was known chiefly as a novelist, especially as the author of ''Con la vida hicieron fuego'' (1953). In the early 1940s he managed a vehemently militant Francoist daily ''El Alcázar, El Alcazár'', yet in his youth and older age he was active as a Carlist. Today he is considered the author of second-rate literature, occasionally recognized as expert on Asturias, Asturian culture and history. Family and youth The best known of Casariego's ancestors was an admiral who in the late 16th century served as governor of Spanish Florida, Florida. The family got very branched in course of the following centuries, yet none of its members rose to similar honors; one of its arms, the Casariegos, hav ...
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