“I already understood that trying out literature would give little pecuniary result, but in the meantime I could live poorly, but with enthusiasm.
After a stint as a baker in Madrid, he decided to dedicate himself to literature, even though there was little prospect of making a decent life as a writer. Further, his return to the Basque Country (he had studied medicine in Madrid and Valencia) rekindled a love of his homeland. As a practicing doctor in Zestoa, he realized he had no interest in or aptitude for medicine. Pío started down a technical path, even receiving his doctorate in medicine in 1893, but soon shifted to letters and books. 
His father, Serafin Baroja, was a mining engineer who also had an artistic soul, writing operas and penning books of Basque songs.
Baroja was born in Donostia on December 28, 1872.
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