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 nati...
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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, "Wha...
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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 ...
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Julia Alvarez
"What do you want to be when you grow up"' my grandfather asked [...] I was staking up all the exciting possibilities for the future [...] `I want to go to Nueva York [...] and I...
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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 butte...
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Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
