This Cuban ethnographer, writer, and literary activist was born on 20 May 1899 in Havana, Cuba, and died on 19 September 1991 in Miami, Florida, where she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Miami in 1987. She left Cuba as an exile, first going to Madrid. Which writer is being described?

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Lydia Cabrera. Lydia Cabrera, a Cuban ethnographer and writer, was born in Havana in 1899 and died in Miami in 1991 after leaving Cuba as an exile, first going to Madrid before settling in Miami.