Julia Alvarez
Novelist, Author
1950 –
Who is Julia Alvarez?
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father’s involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.
Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Yo!. Her publications as a poet include Homecoming and The Woman I Kept to Myself, and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare. Many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant Latina writers and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale.
Many of Alvarez’s works are influenced by her experiences as a Dominican in the United States, and focus heavily on issues of assimilation and identity. Her cultural upbringing as both a Dominican and an American is evident in the combination of personal and political tone in her writing. She is known for works that examine cultural expectations of women both in the Dominican Republic and the United States, and for rigorous investigations of cultural stereotypes.
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- Born
- Mar 27, 1950
New York City - Also known as
- Альварес, Хулия
- Spouses
- Bill Eichner
(1989/06/03 - )
- Bill Eichner
- Ethnicity
- Dominican American
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Syracuse University
Creative writing - Middlebury College
- Connecticut College
- Phillips Academy
- Master of Arts, Syracuse University
- Employment
- Middlebury College
- Lived in
- Dominican Republic
- Vermont
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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