Daughter of Alice do Rego Barros and Gilberto Amado (1887-1969), one of Brazil's most notorious political figures, congressman, writer, journalist and lawyer, ex-President of the United Nations' International Law Committee, and who, in 1915, shot to death fellow writer and poet Aníbal Teóphilo in an official ceremony at the Jornal do Commercio for disagreeing with his opinions on literature (Amado was acquitted).