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Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15, 1914 in [[Buenos Aires]], the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares [[Patrick Lynch (Argentina)|Lynch]]. He was born in [[Recoleta, Buenos Aires|Recoleta]], a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where he would reside the majority of his life. Due to his family's high social class, he was able to dedicate himself exclusively to [[literature]] and, at the same time, distinguish his work from the traditional literary medium of his time. He wrote his first story ("Iris y Margarita") at the age of eleven. He began his secondary education in the [[Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza]] at the [[Universidad de Buenos Aires]]. Later, he started but did not end up finishing degrees in [[law]], [[philosophy]], and [[literature]]. Fueled by disappointment with the university atmosphere, he moved to a family ranch where, when he didn't have visitors, he devoted himself almost entirely to his study of literature. By the time he reached his late twenties, he maintained proficiency in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]] (which he spoke from the age of 4) and [[German language|German]]. Between 1929 and 1937 Bioy Casares published a number of books (''Prólogo'', ''17 disparos contra lo porvenir'', ''Caos'', ''La nueva tormenta'', ''La estatua casera'', ''Luis Greve, muerto'') that he would later disdain, restricting additional publications and refusing to discuss them, labeling all his work previous to 1940 as 'horrible'.
In 1932 he met [[Jorge Luis Borges]] at Villa Ocampo, a house in [[San Isidro Partido|San Isidro]] belonging to [[Victoria Ocampo]]. There, she often hosted different international figures and organized cultural celebrations, one of which brought Borges and Bioy Casares together. Bioy Casares recalled that on that particular occasion, the two writers stepped away from the rest of the guests, only to be reprimanded by Ocampo.<ref>[http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/cultura/1999/08/22/e-01501d.htm «El tercer hombre.» 22 de agosto de 1999.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821080316/http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/cultura/1999/08/22/e-01501d.htm |date=August 21, 2016 }} ''Clarín''.</ref> This reproach provoked them to leave the gathering and return to the city together. The journey sealed a lifelong friendship and many influential literary collaborations. Under the pseudonyms [[Honorio Bustos Domecq|H. Bustos Domecq]] and Benito Suárez Lynch, the two teamed up on a variety of projects from short stories (''Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi'', ''Dos fantasías memorables'', ''Un modelo para la muerte''), to screenplays (''Los orilleros'', ''Invasión''), and fantastic fiction (''Antología de la literatura fantástica'', ''Cuentos breves y extraordinarios''). Between 1945 and 1955, they directed "El séptimo círculo" ("The Seventh Circle"), a collection of translations of popular English [[detective fiction]], a genre that Borges greatly admired. In 2006, ''Borges'', a biographical volume of more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional details of the friendship shared by the two writers. Bioy Casares had already prepared and corrected the texts some time previously, but he never was able to publish them himself.
In 1940, he published the short novel ''[[The Invention of Morel]]'', which marked the beginning of his literary maturity. The novel's introduction was written by Borges, in which he comments on the absence of precursors to science fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a new genre. The novella was very well accepted and received the Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Municipal Prize of Literature) in 1941. During this same time, in collaboration with Borges and Silvina Ocampo, he published two anthologies: ''Antología de la literatura fantástica'' (1940) y ''Antología poética argentina'' (1941).
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