A Filipino poet, short-story writer, a critic, and a painter, Jose Garcia Villa (1908 - 1997) authored one of the famous literature,  " Footnote to Youth".  Jose Garcia Villa was born in Singalong, Manila. His parents were Simeon Villa and Guia Garcia. His father worked as the personal physician of Genera l Emilio Aguinaldo. He graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1929. Villa first studied medicine, but later on, he switched to law, and as a law student he wrote short stories and poetry.  His ideas on literature were provocative.    Some of his works,  titled “Man  Songs ,” was a series of erotic verses . Back then, that was so controversial that  the UP administrators suspended him from the university. In that same year, however, Villa won a prize for the best short story of the year from the  Philippine Free P ress .    Although  he  was largely know n as a Filipino poet, Villa spent 67 years ...