Eduardo Lourenço was born on May 23, 1923 in Guarda, Portugal. He was a writer, known for República: Os Dias do Fim (2010), Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power (1983) and Nome de Guerra, a Viagem de Junqueiro (2011). He was previously married to Annie Salomon. He died on December 1, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal.