Writer Edgardo Vega Yunqué dead at 72

MARIA VEGA Thursday, September 4th 2008, 6:47 PM Puerto Rican writer Edgardo Vega Yunqué, who founded the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center in the lower East Side, has died, his literary agent said yesterday. He was 72. The author of 17 novels, who was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico, and lived alone in Brooklyn, died at Lutheran Hospital on Aug. 25, the agent, Tom Colchie, said. It was not clear yesterday why it... [read full story]