Mun gabatar muku da bitar rayuwa da aikin wannan shahararren marubucin kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo, wataƙila an haife shi a garin Taxco (jihar Guerrero ta yanzu), tsakanin 1580 da 1581.
Juan Ruíz de Alarcón an haife shi a 1580 (duk da cewa masana tarihi da yawa sun tabbatar da cewa a shekarar 1581) ne a New Spain, amma kuma ba a san shi daidai ba ko a cikin babban birni ne ko a garin Taxco, a halin yanzu Guerrero.
Abin da yake tabbatacce shi ne cewa ya yi karatun kundin tsarin mulki da shari'ar farar hula a Jami'ar Royal da Pontifical, a cikin Garin Mexico. A shekara 20 ya yi tafiya zuwa Spain tare da manufar ci gaba da karatu a Jami'ar Salamanca. A cikin yankin Iberiya, a Seville, ya yi aiki da doka har zuwa lokacin da ya koma cikin "Sabuwar Duniya" a cikin 1608, tuni ya zama mai shigar da kara.
Bayan shekaru 40, a kusan 1624, ya koma Turai ya zauna a garin Madrid, ya fara sadaukar da kansa sosai ga rubuta wasanni biyu (comedies) waɗanda ke da halin ɗabi'a mai kyau da kyan gani, wanda nan da nan ya kasance yana hassada daga sanannun marubutan Mutanen Espanya na lokacinsa, kamar Lope de Vega, Quevedo da Góngora, waɗanda sau da yawa suka yi masa ba'a saboda an dawo dasu.
Daga cikin aikinsa mai yawa, mai zuwa ya bayyana: "Gaskiyar zance", "Bangwaye suna ji", "Thea'idodin gida" da "breastsan gatan da ke da gata", dukkansu ɓangarori ne waɗanda halaye kamar aminci, gaskiya, hankali da ladabi. Shahararren marubuci kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo - wanda aka san shi da alfahari da garin sihiri na Taxco, inda a kowace shekara yana karɓar mahimmin haraji mai suna "Jornadas Alacornianas" - ya mutu a Madrid a 1639.
