Dominican-American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez was born in New York City in 1950. Shortly after her birth, Alvarez’s parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic. Ten years ...

Julia Alvarez brought the story of the assassination ... I became interested not just in a straight factual biography, but in a novel. A novel is the truth according to character.

And reading her biography and finding out that she ... But Julia's most important audience was an audience of one. Julia Tavares de Alvarez had not spoken to her daughter for three years.

The Cemetery of Untold Storiesby Julia Alvarez The main character is a novelist ... Ovid’s Philomela and Procne less true than the biography of Bienvenida because she was a real person?

NEH awarded $699,154 to Latino Public Broadcasting, the Los Angeles-based media funding consortium, for a 90-minute biographical documentary on Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez, author of “How ...

In this conversation, Cruz shares her admiration for pioneering author Julia Alvarez (“How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” “In the Time of the Butterflies”) and the ways her ...

Julia Alvarez and her sisters recount the day they had to escape from the Dominican Republic with their parents, because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrew the dictator ...

In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives. By Luis Alberto Urrea Luis Alberto Urrea’s ...