De Holanda was born in Recife, 11 of February of 1919. Bachelor in Legal and Social Sciences for the Law school of Recife, dedicated literature to it, to the journalism and the publishing production. He participated of the Theater of the Student of Pernambuco (TEP) and in 1936 started to write stories. He taught the History of the Brazilian Theater and Graphical Arts, in the School of Beautiful-Art of Recife. In 1954, together with Aloísio Magalhães, Jose Laurenio de Melo and others, he established the Amateur Graph, a group of artistic vanguard that had as its objective to create books as art objects. The group dissolved at the beginning of the military regimen, produced a small amount of books of drawing and printed material of good quality. In 1972, Gastão of Holland settled Rio De Janeiro. He wrote fiction and poems. He died in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.