Julia Alvarez
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born
March 27, 1950
gender
female
place of birth
New York, New York, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City. Her parents moved back to the Dominican Republic when Alvarez was 3 months old and she was raised there until she was 10, when the family moved back to NYC.
She is currently writer-in-residence at Middlebury College and the owner of a coffee farm named Alta Gracia, near Jarabacoa in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. The farm hosts a school to teach local farmers and their families how to read and write.
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In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez avg rating 4.17 — 6,459 ratings — published 1995 22 editions |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.56 — 3,640 ratings — published 1991 12 editions |
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In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.78 — 866 ratings — published 2000 12 editions |
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Yo!: A Novel by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.62 — 850 ratings — published 1997 8 editions |
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Saving the World by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.29 — 798 ratings — published 2006 7 editions |
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Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.78 — 503 ratings — published 2002 6 editions |
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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.22 — 232 ratings — published 2007 6 editions |
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How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.62 — 192 ratings — published 2001 11 editions |
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Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez avg rating 4.01 — 167 ratings — published 1998 2 editions |
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Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez avg rating 3.71 — 97 ratings — published 2004 8 editions |
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"A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart."
— Julia Alvarez (In the Time of Butterflies)
— Julia Alvarez (In the Time of Butterflies)
"It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. "
— Julia Alvarez (Antes de ser libres)
— Julia Alvarez (Antes de ser libres)
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"I suppose only an almighty God can see all of our differing stories. Only He can love each narrow, aggrieved, and petty self and applaud each time one of us, inflamed by love or enlarged by loss, manages to see briefly beyond the confines of our own self-interest into another's being."
— Julia Alvarez
— Julia Alvarez
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