作為一位受人尊重的記者和海明威研究學者，諾韋爾托•富恩特斯（NORBERTO FUENTES）是《海明威在古巴》等十部作品的作者。憑藉其短篇小說集《孔達多的罪行》（Condenados del Condadoc），他曾榮獲1968年卡薩德拉美洲奬（the 1968 Casa de las Americas Prize）。他的作品《菲德爾•卡斯特羅自傳》一書，更是使其獲得瞭國際性的聲譽。在西班牙，《國傢報》（El Pais）曾盛贊本書為“當代拉丁美洲文學的經典”，並稱贊富恩特斯是“當代最傑齣的古巴作傢”。在德國，《時代周報》（Die Zeit）評論說，“長期以來，富恩特斯的作品也許是所有有關這位古巴領導人的作品中最好的一部”。

本書英文版譯者安娜•庫什納（ANNA KUSHNER）生於美國費城，並於1999年首次赴古巴遊曆。她也是吉列爾莫•羅薩雷斯所著《中途之傢》（The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales）一書的譯者，並正在翻譯孔卡洛•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.