Adolfo Caminha  Adolfo Ferreira Caminha (May 29, 1867 – January 1, 1897) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel "Bom-Crioulo", which deals with race and homosexuality. Caminha was born in Aracati in 1867, to Raimundo Ferreira dos Santos and Maria Firmina Caminha. Orphaned when he was 10 years old, he went to live with his uncle in Fortaleza. In 1883, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where another relative of his matriculated him in a naval school. In 1886, he published his first book: "Voos Incertos" ("Uncertain Flights"). In the same year, he made an instruction trip to the United States. In 1887 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and published the short story books "Judite" and "Lágrimas de um Crente" ("Tears of a Believer"). In 1888 he returned to Fortaleza, but got involved on a scandal where he eloped with an "alférez"s daughter. They would have two daughters, and fled to Rio de Janeiro, where Caminha would spend his life as a civil servant. By 1891, Caminha was working on journals such as the "Jornal do Commercio", "Gazeta de Notícias" and "O País", using the pseudonym Félix Guanabarino. He also published the novel "A Normalista". In 1894, he published an account of his travel to the U.S.A., entitled "No País dos Ianques" ("In the Country of the Yankees"). In 1895, he published his controversial novel "Bom-Crioulo" and "Cartas Literárias". In 1896, he founded a journal named "Nova Revista", and published the novel "Tentação". Poor and debilitated by tuberculosis, he would die at only 29 years old, leaving unfinished two novels.