Julia Alvarez was born in 1950, Julia Alvarez has written at least 40 books. Their most popular book is In the Time of the Butterflies with 130 saves with an average rating of 3.9⭐.
Author Bio
Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.”
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
3.9
56 reads
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Julia Alvarez
4.13
15 reads
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
3.28
40 reads
Afterlife
Julia Alvarez
3.45
16 reads
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Chantel Acevedo
Courtney Alameda
Ann Dávila Cardinal
Gabriela Martins
Racquel Marie
Maika Moulite
Maritza Moulite
Claribel A. Ortega
Lilliam Rivera
Jenny Torres Sanchez
Alexandra Villasante
Ari Tison
Julia Alvarez
M. García Peña
David Bowles
3.33
6 reads
Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez
4.13
9 reads
Yo!
Julia Alvarez
3.8
7 reads
In the Name of Salome
Julia Alvarez
3.5
6 reads
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
Terri Windling
Deborah Eisenberg
Maria Flook
Patricia Foster
Vivian Gornick
Lucy Grealy
bell hooks
Fanny Howe
Fern Kupfer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Carole Maso
Alice Adams
Jane Miller
Lydia Millet
Connie Rose Porter
Francine Prose
Joyce Carol Oates
Linda Gray Sexton
Midori Snyder
Fay Weldon
Joy Williams
Julia Alvarez
Margaret Atwood
Ann Beattie
Rosellen Brown
A.S. Byatt
Kathryn Davis
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
0
0 reads
Saving the World
Julia Alvarez
3
3 reads
Finding Miracles
Julia Alvarez
3.2
5 reads
Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1
2 reads
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
5
2 reads
The Secret Footprints
Julia Alvarez
5
3 reads
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA
Julia Alvarez
3
2 reads
Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez
Ozzie Rodriguez
Olivia Preciado
3.5
2 reads
Something to Declare: Essays
Julia Alvarez
0
1 read
Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
Gabriela Mistral
César Vallejo
Alfonsina Storni
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Nicolás Guillén
Pablo Neruda
Miguel Otero Silva
Raquel Verdesoto de Romo Dávila
José María Arguedas
Léon-Gontran Damas
Óscar Cerruto
Aimé Césaire
Julia de Burgos
Mario Benedetti
Idea Vilariño
Rosario Castellanos
Nicomedes Santa Cruz
Ernesto Cardenal
René Depestre
Raquel Jodorowsky
Roberto Sosa
Víctor Jara
Roque Dalton
Ana María Rodas
Bertalicia Peralta
José Emilio Pacheco
Pedro Shimose
Nancy Morejón
Conceição Evaristo
Juan Manuel Roca
Gioconda Belli
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda
José Leonel Rugama
Rei Berroa
Ernest Pépin
Raúl Zurita
Daisy Zamora
Glauco Mattoso
Elicura Chihuailaf
Reina María Rodríguez
Lourdes Espinola
Kyra Galván
Nicolas Behr
Ana Istarú
Brigitte Zacarías Watson
Amanda Castro
Fernanda García Lao
Briceida Cuevas Cob
Carlos Aguasaco
Negma Coy
Teresa Cabrera Espinoza
Margarita Losada Vargas
NOT A BOOK
Javier Zamora
Juan Felipe Herrera (Translator)
Clayton Eshleman (Translator)
Barbara Paschke (Translator)
Jessica Powell (Translator)
Mark Strand (Translator)
Richard Zenith (Translator)
0
0 reads
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes
0
0 reads
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
Julia Alvarez
4
2 reads
A Wedding in Haiti
Julia Alvarez
0
0 reads
A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia
Julia Alvarez
5
1 read
Freeman's: Potere
Elif Shafak
Leïla Sliman
Lan Samantha Chang
Margaret Atwood
Aleksandar Hemon
Eula Biss
Etgar Keret
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Tracy K. Smith
Aminatta Forna
Julia Alvarez
Jaime Cortez
Nicole Im
Barry Lopez
Patrick Hilsman
Chris Russell
Eka Kurniawan
Édouard Louis
Ben Okri
Tahmima Anam
Jenni Fagan
Josephine Rowe
Kanako Nishi
David Mitchell
Deborah Landau
A Yi
Damiano Abeni (Translator)
Massimiliano Bonatto (Translator)
Marina Calvaresi (Translator)
Mario A. Galasso (Translator)
Umberto Manuini (Translator)
Francesca Pellas (Translator)
Leonardo Taiuti (Translator)
0
0 reads
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
Julia Alvarez
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
Russell Banks
Julian Barnes
Ann Beattie
T.C. Boyle
Peter Carey
Angela Carter
Vikram A. Chandra
Edwidge Danticat
Daniele Del Giudice
Junot Díaz
Nathan Englander
Péter Esterházy
Richard Ford
Peter Høeg
Kazuo Ishiguro
Bobbie Ann Mason
Ian McEwan
Lorrie Moore
Murathan Mungan
Joyce Carol Oates
Ben Okri
Amos Oz
Salman Rushdie
Graham Swift
Tobias Wolff
Can Xue
3
1 read
A Cafecito Story
Julia Alvarez
3
1 read
Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life
Mike Winchell
Julia Alvarez
Karen Cushman
Margarita Engle
Dee Garretson
Nathan Hale
Matthew J. Kirby
Kate Messner
Linda Sue Park
Adam Rex
Caroline Starr Rose
Chris Rylander
Gary D. Schmidt
Alan Sitomer
Heidi Y. Stemple
Rita Williams-Garcia
Tracy Edward Wymer
Lisa Yee
Jane Yolen
Claire Legrand
Grace Lin
0
0 reads
A Cafecito Story: El Cuento del Cafecito
Julia Alvarez
4
1 read
Cemetery of Untold Stories \ Cementerio de las historias no contadas Sp. ed
Julia Alvarez
Mercedes Guhl (Translator)
0
0 reads
The Best American Poetry 2020
Julia Alvarez
Brandon Amico
Rick Barot
Kaveh Bassiri
0
0 reads
In the Time of Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
4
0 reads
The Woman I Kept to Myself
Julia Alvarez
0
0 reads
Homecoming: New and Collected Poems
Julia Alvarez
0
0 reads
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump