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'...

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez - 1994 Introduction In the postscript to In the Time of the Butterflies, published in 1994, Julia Alvarez explains that one purpose of writing the novel was to "bring acquaintance of these famous...

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Only ten years old in 1960 when her family escaped their homeland, Julia Alvarez fled the brutal “justice” of the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. Her father had been...

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Only ten years old in 1960 when her family escaped their homeland, Julia Alvarez fled the brutal “justice” of the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. Her father had been active...

In the Time of the Butterflies is a novel by Julia Alvarez, fictionalizing the lives of the Mirabal sisters from their personal accounts of what happened during the time. It recounts the rebellion against Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the dictator of the...

The Dominican-born author Julia Alvarez's first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (see WLT 66:3, p. 516), was named a Notable Book of 1991 by the New York Times Book Review. Her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, reaffirms...

CONCORD -- In all of New England they're the last of their breed and they're dying out. The food supply sustaining the final handful of official state butterflies is running low. The little garrison of Karner blues numbers less than 50 and it's under...

In the following review, Behar contextualizes In the Time of the Butterflies as a historical novel about Latina women and revolution.

In the following mixed review, Stavans calls In the Time of the Butterflies "simultaneously invigorating and curiously disappointing."

Echevarría teaches Hispanic and comparative literature. In the following mixed review, he comments on character, plot, and theme in In the Time of the Butterflies.

Provides an analysis of courage in the novel "In the Time of Butterflies."

Explores chapter one of "The Time of the Butterflies." Provides a character analysis of Dede, the second oldest Mirabal sister, narrating the story.

A summary of Julia Alvarez's book "In the Time of Butterflies", about a rebellion against the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.