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Julia Alvarez
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1950
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
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Birth
1950
Death
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First book
1994
Years writing
32
Julia Alvarez was born in New York in 1950, though she spent much of her childhood in the Dominican Republic.
Her family was forced to flee the Dominican Republic for the United States due to her father's involvement in a plot against the dictator Trujillo.
She is a versatile author who has written novels, poems, essays, and an extensive body of work for children.
Her most acclaimed work, In the Time of the Butterflies, explores Dominican history and identity with great sensitivity.
Throughout her career, she has published over one hundred works, establishing herself as a key voice in Dominican-American literature.