Journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He was a member of the Cuban Academy of the Spanish Langyage and of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. Labrador Ruiz was a well-learned and traveled man who created his own style of writing novels, which he called gaseiforme. In 1933, he published his first novel in this style, El laberinto de sí mismo, which forms a trilogy with Cresival (1936) and Anteo (Novela gaseiforme) (1940). With his collection of short stories, El gallo en el espejo (1953), he established his cuentería cubiche style. He lived in exile in Miami writing for Linden Lane Magazine.