Her father was a chief surgeon, which gave her family financial comfort. But their political exile to Queens, New York, in 1960 would have a profound effect on her upbringing. Now, a PBS documentary ...

Readers who loved In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents have a new novel to put on their TBR list: Coming next April from Algonquin Books is Julia Alvarez's first ...

If a story is never told, where does it go? Does it stay with the author? Does it fade into the void? Or does it find a way to be told? These are just a few of the questions asked in Julia Alvarez’s ...

It is still a time for Butterflies. Julia Alvarez’s beloved modern classic In the Time of Butterflies, a fictionalized account of the activist Mirabel Sisters living under the Trujillo dictatorship in ...

I like to imagine fiction writers are a fairly collegial bunch when they're not dreaming up stories. But more than a few of Julia Alvarez's peers must be shaking their heads that she can take almost ...

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books, 272 pages. $25.95 hardcover; $12.99 ebook. How responsible is any one of us for easing or solving the problems of others? Especially when they might have ...

In December, the Johnston County School Board voted to ban How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, an account of sisters who immigrate to America from the Dominican Republic, from school libraries ...

Julia Alvarez is a renowned Dominican-American author whose work finds its power in intersections: like that between the personal and political, or those present in the Dominican-American diaspora.

Julia Alvarez, child of the sweltry Caribbean, loves winters in Vermont. Not the cold, no, but "the bareness and the quietness and the simplicity." A 10-inch blanket of snow apparently focuses the ...

Twenty-five years ago when novelist Julia Alvarez published her first novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” there were few to no well-known American-Latina writers. Now, as she points out, ...