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, 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 ...

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.

In Alvarez’s latest novel, the lead character buries her unfinished work in a cemetery in hopes of laying it to rest. The author didn’t have to think hard to create those discarded stories.

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 ...

For decades she has written and published under the pseudonym, Scheherazade, (from “One Thousand and One Nights”) under which she has become a celebrated author. But she is still unhappy, as she has ...

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 ...

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’s warm and graceful latest title, “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” her seventh adult work of fiction, circles around writers and stories that don’t make it to the books ...

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 Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” covers her breakout semi-autobiographical novel “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” and her searing bestseller “In the Time of the Butterflies.” ...