Three months after Julia's birth, her family moves back to the Dominican Republic, where they live for the next ten years. The Alvarez family is forced to flee to the United States after her ...

Narrator: In her debut novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez re-imagined her family story of immigration and the circumstances that brought to an end an idyllic childhood.

“Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” takes viewers ... Alvarez said that after arriving in Queens, she felt that her family “had lost everything.” But in spite of feeling like an outsider ...

“Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” includes extensive interviews with Alvarez, her family and her literary contemporaries. The documentary is produced and directed by Adriana Bosch (“Latino ...

Julia Alvarez said “it made me laugh and shake ... Everything she writes about (girlhood, family, grief, loss, ambition, etc) can be deemed as universal. How has growing up in New York shaped ...

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of ... Republic that features extensive interviews with Alvarez, her family and her literary contemporaries. The production looks at the writer ...

Julia Alvarez recounts the day she had to escape from the Dominican Republic with her family. Julia Alvarez and her sisters recount the day they had to escape from the Dominican Republic with ...

Julia Alvarez wrote about the interior lives of working class women. While at the Yaddo writing retreat, Julia Alvarez found herself suffering from writers block. Inspiration struck when she ...

Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez will be the focus of a new documentary for PBS from “American Masters” and Latino Public Broadcasting. Timed to Hispanic Heritage Month, “Julia Alvarez: A Life ...

Julia Alvarez and her sisters recount the day they ... the men will get suspicious and take her father away, and maybe the whole family. - When did you hear that you were leaving?

Explore the story of writer Julia Alvarez, who blazed a trail for a generation of Latino authors. Explore the story of Dominican-American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez, who burst onto the ...

"Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined" includes eatures extensive interviews with Alvarez, her family and her literary contemporaries. The documentary is produced and directed by Adriana Bosch ...