SOMETHING TO DECLARE By Julia Alvarez Algonquin, 300 pages, $19.95 Julia Alvarez earnestly describes the difficulties of balancing the many parts of her life as a writer, teacher, wife and member ...

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that authors give life to their characters by feeding them bits of their own life.

Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined is a co-production of Latino Public Broadcasting, Bosch & Company, Inc. and ITVS in association with American Masters.. About American Masters Now in its 39th ...

Julia Alvarez released "Afterlife" in 2020, about a woman dealing with her husband's unexpected death and meeting an undocumented teenager. The book was dedicated to her oldest sister, Maury, who ...

Julia Alvarez, the author of 'The ... Her work has previously appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day ... has long written about the women history has overlooked — and The Cemetery of Untold ...

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.

Julia Alvarez wrote her new novel as if it were her last ‘The Cemetery of Untold Stories,’ written as Alvarez was going through a health crisis, grapples with the prospect of work left ...

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 ...

Alvarez’s work has earned her numerous awards, including a National Medal of the Arts that she received from President Obama in 2014. I spoke with Alvarez on New Year’s Eve 2014. I asked her ...

Writing "In the Time of the Butterflies," Julia Alvarez felt a responsibility to bring the story of the assassination of the Mirabel sisters to life through her characters, stating that "a novel ...

While at the Yaddo writing retreat, Julia Alvarez found herself suffering from writers block. Inspiration struck when she befriended the maids, housekeepers and cooks and heard their stories, and ...

Julia: Teaching them to draw their names 'cause they had just learned, didn't even know how to work a pencil. I was in Altagracia in that community of people who couldn't read or write.