Marquez was beloved around the world as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera and other books. In America, he was mostly someone whose novels people told other people they'd read when they actually hadn't.
Now, a survey by Quinnipiac University has found that 68% of Americans are claiming to have read Marquez's obituary when they actually only scanned the headline.
The same survey shows that 14% of Americans, spurred on by the author's passing, will now put a Marquez book on their Amazon wishlist or reserve it at the library, then never get around actually picking it up.
Photo by Isabel Steva Hernandez
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