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Bookmark or Share- About - Julia AlvarezIn 2024, she was the subject of an American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,” on PBS. Alvarez is one of the founders of Border of Lights, a movement to promote peace and collaboration between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She lives in Vermont.
- Julia AlvarezJulia Alvarez has written novels (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterfiles, Yo!, In the Name of Salome, Saving the World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/El Otro Lado, The Woman I kepy to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceanera), and numerous books for young ...
- Julia Alvarez Biography - Chicago Public LibraryJulia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 17, 1950, the second of four daughters. Three months later, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic after a self-imposed exile from General Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship.
- Julia Alvarez | The Poetry FoundationAlvarez’s poetry often explores her identity as a Dominican American. She writes about childhood memories and the experience of being an immigrant living between two cultures. Her poetry collections include The Woman I Kept to Myself (2011), Homecoming: New and Collected Poems (1996), and The Other Side / El Otro Lado (1996).
- Julia Alvarez Biography - life, family, children, parents ...Although she has been a writer of prose and poetry for most of her life, Julia Alvarez did not have a significant impact until 1991, when at the age of forty-one her first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, was released.
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