Between 19 he was director of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Organization of American States, in Washington, D.C. In 1943 he moved with his family to the United States, where he gave lessons on Brazilian Literature in the University of California-Berkeley, until 1945. Verissimo married in 1931 to Mafalda Volpe and had two children, Luis Fernando Verissimo, also a writer, and Clarissa. The following year, he saw his first great success with the romance Clarissa. He published his first work, Fantoches ('Puppets'), in 1932, with a sequence of short stories, mostly in the form of short plays. He then undertook the whole editorial project at Editora Globo, propelling its nationwide fame. In the following year, he was hired to occupy the position of secretary of edition of the Revista do Globo, of which he would become editor in 1933. There he began to live around writers of renown, such as Mário Quintana, Augusto Meyer, Guilhermino César and others. He then moved to Porto Alegre in 1930, willing to live solely by selling his writing. Verissimo settled in Cruz Alta as the owner of a drugstore, but was unsuccessful. His father, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, met financial ruin during his son's youth and, as a result, Erico didn't complete secondary school because of the need to work. Érico Verissimo was the son of Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. Érico Lopes Verissimo (Decem– November 28, 1975) was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

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O Tempo e o Vento by Erico Verissimo