Born in New York City in 1950, Julia Alvarez's parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic, shortly after her birth. Ten years later, the family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo.
Alvarez has written novels (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti), and numerous books for young readers (including the Tía Lola Stories series, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, Return to Sender and Where Do They Go?).
Alvarez’s awards include the Pura Belpré and Américas Awards for her books for young readers, the Hispanic Heritage Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
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Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Literature, American literature, Drama, English literature, Families, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile literature, Readers (Secondary), Reading Level-Grade 10, Study and teaching (Secondary), Big game sport, British and irish drama, Classical Literature, Conflict of generations, Cossacks, Criticism and interpretation, Dominican Americans, Dramatic production, Encyclopædia Britannica, English Children's plays, English Love stories, English Young adult dramaPlaces
Amazon rainforest, Baker Street, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Italy, London, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet, Verona, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, China, Cuba, Developing countries, Eastern Europe, England, Higüey (Dominican Republic), La Vega (Dominican Republic), Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, Monte Cristi (Dominican Republic), Ojo de Agua (Salcedo, Dominican Republic)People
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1890, 20th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 1930-1994, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, DecemberID Numbers
- OLID: OL29751A
- ISNI: 000000010918983X
- VIAF: 79102742
- Wikidata: Q450243
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q450243
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