He left some information about himself in the prologues of his works, but it is not clear to what extent that information is real or fictional. The most well known fact is that he lost his left hand in the Battle of Lepanto. Cervantes was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, although it is unlikely that the two men ever met.
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