Born into a family of minor, but wealthy, landowners in the village of bFuente Vaqueros/b, Granada, García Lorca was a precocious child, although he did not excel at school. In 1909, his father moved the family to the city of Granada, ... Aware of his increasingly distraught mental bstate/b, García Lorca's family arranged for him to take a lengthy tour of the United States in 1929-1930. García Lorca's stay in America, particularly New York, where he studied briefly at Columbia ...