Julia Alvarez is a highly regarded writer and winner of many awards and fellowships, including the PEN Oakland Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Yaddo residency, with novels named as American Library Association Notable and National B...

As Julia Alvarez stepped up to give a talk about her first novel, based on her Dominican family's immigration to the United States, a Dominican girl in the audience turned to her friend and said, "What she got to say to us? She's a white girl." Neverthel...

In her poetry and prose, Julia Alvarez (born 1950) has expressed her feelings about her immigration to the United States. She was born in New York City of Dominican parents, who returned to their native land with their newborn daughter. After her family'...

Julia Alvarez. In the Name of Salome. Chapel Hill, N.C. Algonquin. 2000. 357 pages. $23.95. ISBN 1-56512-276-3. A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH and creative writing at Middlebury College, Julia Alvarez has published three previous novels: How the Garda Girls Lost Their Accents (1991;...

JULIA ALVAREZ. Algonquin, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 1-56512-276-3 * The Dominican Republic's most famous poet and her daughter, a professor in the United States, are the remarkable protagonists of this lyrical work, one of the most moving political novels of the past half...