Manuel Puig (Author) (December 28, 1932 - Cuernavaca, July 22, 1990) was an Argentinian author. Among his best known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), Boquitas pintadas (1973) (Heartbreak Tango), and El beso de la mujer araña (1976) Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was made into a film by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, Héctor Babenco and later turned into a Broadway musical. He was born in General Villegas (in Buenos Aires province). After graduating from Universidad de Buenos Aires with a degree in philosophy, he began working as a film archivist and editor in Buenos Aires, then in Italy as a result of winning a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Buenos Aires. Puig's dream was to become a screenwriter, to write TV shows and movies. This never took off. In the 1960s he moved back to Buenos Aires, where he penned his first major novel, La Traicion de Rita Hayworth. Being of leftist tendencies, and seeing an oncoming rightist wave in Latin America, Puig moved to New York, where he wrote his later works (including El beso de la mujer araña). After spending years ''in an unsuccessful search for a good husband',' he settled in 1989 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Puig died in Cuernavaca on July 22, 1990.