Fernando Sánchez Dragó boasted of children, although he himself acknowledged that he had not been a good father. "Life has given me a master's degree in parenthood," said the writer, who died Monday at age 86.

The writer had four children with as many women. He referred to them as "the herd" The eldest is 63 years old (Dragó himself joked that he could be his younger brother's grandfather) The second is the daughter of Caterina Barilli, a professor of History and Philosophy whom Dragó met in Italy.