De Los Reads picks: “ El cementerio de los cuentos sin contar ” (Spanish edition) by Julia Alvarez (HarperCollins Español) This novel is a brilliant blend of magic and reality.

If you haven't already read Julia Alvarez's work, now is the time. Alvarez was born in the New York City in 1950, then soon after her family moved back to their native country, Dominican Republic ...

Julia Alvarez joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss her novel "The Cemetery of Untold Stories" ...

This summer, the Tillamook School Board voted to remove Julia Alvarez’s novel “ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents ” from Tillamook High School’s 10th-grade honors English curriculum.

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that authors give life to their characters by feeding them bits of their own life.

For extraordinary storytelling, in poetry and in prose, the 2013 National Medal of Arts to Julia Alvarez. [applause] clap, clap, clap Ramona: Julia's work came to solidify a new identity that was ...

Julia Alvarez wrote about the interior lives of working class women. While at the Yaddo writing retreat, Julia Alvarez found herself suffering from writers block. Inspiration struck when she ...

Alvarez said that after arriving in Queens, she felt that her family “had lost everything.” But in spite of feeling like an outsider, poetry helped her find a new home.

Critically-acclaimed author Julia Alvarez is the focus of the American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined.” The hour-long film will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, on ...

Spanning multiple genres and audiences, Alvarez’s work includes three nonfiction books, three poetry collections, 11 books for children and young adults and seven literary novels.

Join Vermont Public following the screening of American Masters - Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined. Julia will be interviewed on stage by Mikaela Lefrak, Vermont Edition host and senior producer. This ...

Alvarez attends Connecticut College from 1967 to 1969, where she wins the Benjamin T. Marshall Poetry Prize. She then transfers to Middlebury College, and graduates summa cum laude in 1971.