Juan Ramón Jiménez Hall is named after the late noble prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez . But Juan Ramón Jiménez was more than just a noble prize winner. He was a writer, a hero, a teacher and a husband. Jiménez is a native Spaniard and former University of Maryland, professor of Spanish literature and language. Around the time of the Spanish Civil war Juan Ramón Jiménez sheltered 12 orphans who were cared for by a society that he helped found, before fleeing the waring country for Cuba, America, and finally Puerto Rico.
Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote over 300 poems during his life. His first collection of poems Almas de Violet was published in 1900 when Jiménez was only 19. Jiménez’s early writings such as Almas de Violet, Elejías Puras, Soledad