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27 April
He was born in Ica.
His parents were Carolina Pinto and Fajardo Valdelomar.

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He completed his studies of primary culminating in Chincha. He moved to Lima to pursue his secondary education at the "Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe".

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He then entered the Faculty of Letters of the "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos". He interrupted his studies to venture into journalism.

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He left classes the following year to work as a cartoonist in the magazines "Monos y Monadas", "Aplausos y silbidos" and "Gil Blas". He decided to resume his studies; the university, however, never came to interest him much, and in 1913 he ended up abandoning it definitively.

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His firsts stories appeared in the ''Peruvian Varieties and illustration'' magazine. He wrote the short novel ''La ciudad muerta''. It was published in Lima in the ''Peruvian illustration'' magazine. He dedicated the novel to his friend Juan Bautista.

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He arrived in Rome. The time he spent in this city was used to write a series of articles named ''Chronicles of Rome''. It was published in Lima in the newspaper ''The nation and the national opinion''

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He won "Circle of journalists" with his book "The psychology of the rooster"

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He was published his book "El caballero carmelo"

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He resigned from his job at the newspaper La Prensa. He toured the north of the country.

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Returned to Ica and was elected deputy to the Regional Congress of the center. He died on November 3 after falling from a ladder of a height of 6 meters