Paz Márquez-Benítez (1894-1983) Serenidad Marquez-Benitez, a Filipina writer born in 1894 in Lucena City, Quezon, authored the initial Filipino modern English-language short story, Dead Stars, printed in the Filipino Herald in 1925. Given birth to into the prominent and well-off Marquez family of Quezon province, she was among the first era of Filipinos trained in […]