作为一位受人尊重的记者和海明威研究学者，诺韦尔托•富恩特斯（NORBERTO FUENTES）是《海明威在古巴》等十部作品的作者。凭借其短篇小说集《孔达多的罪行》（Condenados del Condadoc），他曾荣获1968年卡萨德拉美洲奖（the 1968 Casa de las Americas Prize）。他的作品《菲德尔•卡斯特罗自传》一书，更是使其获得了国际性的声誉。在西班牙，《国家报》（El Pais）曾盛赞本书为“当代拉丁美洲文学的经典”，并称赞富恩特斯是“当代最杰出的古巴作家”。在德国，《时代周报》（Die Zeit）评论说，“长期以来，富恩特斯的作品也许是所有有关这位古巴领导人的作品中最好的一部”。

本书英文版译者安娜•库什纳（ANNA KUSHNER）生于美国费城，并于1999年首次赴古巴游历。她也是吉列尔莫•罗萨雷斯所著《中途之家》（The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales）一书的译者，并正在翻译孔卡洛•塔瓦雷斯的《耶路撒冷》（Jerusalem by Goncalo Tavares）。

Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some of the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical and utterly captivating 'autobiography' of the Cuban leader - in Fidel's own arrogant and seductive language - discussing everything from Castro's early sexual experiences in Biran to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy and state secrets. Like Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Edmund Morris' Dutch", this wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself.