About Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic and migrated with her family to the United States in 1960. Her acclaimed first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed by Americas magazine as 1993's No. 1 bestseller in Latin America, and was named by both the ALA and The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
Novels
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)
In the Time of the Butterflies (1994)
Yo! (1997)
In the Name of Salome (2000)
The Secret Footprints (2000)
How Tia Lola Came to Stay (2001)
Before We Were Free (2002)
Finding Miracles (2004)
Saving the World (2006)
Return to Sender (2009)
In the Time of the Butterflies (1994)
Yo! (1997)
In the Name of Salome (2000)
The Secret Footprints (2000)
How Tia Lola Came to Stay (2001)
Before We Were Free (2002)
Finding Miracles (2004)
Saving the World (2006)
Return to Sender (2009)
Collections
Chapbooks
Picture Books
Non fiction
Something to Declare (1998)
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction Poetry and Drama (1999)
Cry Out: Poets Protest the War (2003)
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA (2007)
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction Poetry and Drama (1999)
Cry Out: Poets Protest the War (2003)
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA (2007)
Links to other websites
| juliaalvarez.com |
Julia Alvarez recommends
The House on Mango Street (1991) Sandra Cisneros "It's not always that a luscious writer can be a luscious reader of her own work. This must be the voice she hears in her head when she writes her magical prose." | Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) Helena Maria Viramontes "A moving, heartbreaking tale of loss and survival." | The Saint of Lost Things (2005) Christopher Castellani "Christopher Castellani's characters are so real they seem to leave the fog of their breath on the page!" | |
Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles (2009) Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés "In Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés presents an amazing diversity of characters. Here are voices I have never heard before in American Literature. With clarity, tenderness, but unflinching courage, she fills in some of the blank faces that have been left out of our minority mosaic. Here are the lowest of the low, marginalized even by their own, but springing to full, complex, rich, engaging reality. Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés creates a big enough imaginative space for their lives and their stories. We are all the richer for having this new storyteller with this first, promising collection join our Latino and American literature circles." |
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