 Among her best-known works is "Panorama de la Cultura Puertorriqueña" and several essays on Federico García Lorca.Babín Cortés was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on May 30, 1910, daughter to Emmanuel Babín Satgé, from Guadeloupe and Joaquina Cortés Marrero, of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico.Her first years were spent learning French from her father.