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Name: Julia Alvarez
Birth Date: 1950
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Hispanic American
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, poet

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Biography of Julia Alvarez
4,551 words, approx. 15 pages
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...
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Biography of Julia Alvarez
2,541 words, approx. 9 pages
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."...
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Biography of Julia Alvarez
2,229 words, approx. 7 pages
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...


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Julia Álvarez Information
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Julia Álvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten. In 1960, the family fled back to...


News and Journals
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The Americas
Julia Álvarez: Progenitor of a Movement
03/01/2007: 3,711 words, approx. 12 pages
This Dominican-American writer weaves passionate sensibilities through her works with the gift of seeing through others' eyes History demonstrates that literary periods are launched by daring, intrepid writers or poets who appear to have suddenly sprouted from nowhere. Later these writers are acclaimed...
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Opera News
Marcelo Álvarez
12/01/2004: 568 words, approx. 2 pages
Marcelo Ãlvarez "THE TENOR'S PASSION" Arias by Puccini, Cilèa, Giordano, Flotow, R. Strauss, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Lalo, Bizet. Staatskapelle Dresden, Viotti. Texts and translations. Sony SK 92937 At this juncture in his vocal development, lyric tenor Marcelo Ãlvarez is beginning to step up...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Julia Alvarez with Catherine Wiley
3,609 words, approx. 12 pages
Wiley is an American educator and critic who has written works on feminism and drama. In the following interview, Alvarez discusses such subjects as her identity as a Latina, the Women's movement, and her family.
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Julia Alvarez
1,126 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following essay, Alvarez discusses issues of color in relationship to the Dominican immigrant experience.
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Critical Review by Fred Muratori
372 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following excerpt, Muratori praises the poems in Homecoming.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Julia Alvarez
2,727 words, approx. 9 pages
Long essay about the American author Julia Alvarez
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Essay Grade: 75%
Becoming a Butterfly Rules
410 words, approx. 1 pages
In her talk titled "Chasing the Butterflies", Julia Alvarez explains that the "butterfly" in which she is speaking of is not "any touchy-feely, gushy Hallmark-card, sentimentalized definition of butterfly."


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