The Jewel of Verse II and La Joya del Verso : Xlibris : 9781413429466 : 1413429467 : 23 Dec 2003 : I come from a family of high achievers and writers. My father, Alfredo Holguin Pombo, was president of a Mortgage Company and vice-president of El Banco de Colombia. He taught me to love poetry; my mother, Beatrice Murray Fairbanks de Holguin Cayzer wrote a newspaper column" Buzzing With Bea" for the Palm Beach Daily News for a period of fourteen years and four books, including "Tales of Palm Beach". My aunt Elaine Murray Stone has written twenty books among them a biography on Mother Theresa. Both my grandfathers were Ambassadors, my cousin Jorge Holguin, may he rest in peace, owned a Theatre Company and wrote books, among them "MadreSelva; my great grandfather was president of Colombia. I am related to three other Colombian Presidents, to William Prescott who wrote "The History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru" in the 1800's; to Rafael Pombo, my great-great uncle who wrote Nursery Rhy