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Julia Alvarez
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March 27, 1950
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| place of birth |
New York, New York, The United States |
| website |
http://www.juliaalvarez.com/ |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction
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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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