 Gabriel García Márquez started out as a journalist and has written many acclaimed non-fiction and short stories; his earliest published writings were short stories which appeared in Bogotá's "El Espectador" newspaper in the 1940s.He is best known for novels such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) and "The Autumn of the Patriarch" (1975), "No One Writes to the Colonel" (1962), and post-Boom work such as "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985).He has achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for introducing what has been labeled magical realism to the literary world.