Her father was a chief surgeon, which gave her family financial comfort. But their political exile to Queens, New York, in 1960 would have a profound effect on her upbringing. Now, a PBS documentary ...

If a story is never told, where does it go? Does it stay with the author? Does it fade into the void? Or does it find a way to be told? These are just a few of the questions asked in Julia Alvarez’s ...

The acclaimed author of “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” and “In the Time of the Butterflies” is the subject of a new PBS documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” about her childhood ...

The author of 'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' is looking back at her 30-year publishing career and what it means to be an elder Alvarez, whose new book is out April 2, has long written about the ...

Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” is a book about the power of narratives and the way they shape us. Engaging and written in a playful, crystal-clear prose, this novel explores ...

LAWRENCE — Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez told a capacity crowd at Northern Essex Community College about our need to establish connections by telling and listening to each others’ stories.

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books, 272 pages. $25.95 hardcover; $12.99 ebook. How responsible is any one of us for easing or solving the problems of others? Especially when they might have ...

This summer on Code Switch, we're talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about the different dimensions of freedom. In our last installment, we talked to author Ross Gay ...

Author Julia Alvarez, whose book “In the Time of the Butterflies” was featured during the 2019 NEA Big Read Lakeshore this past fall, will return to West Michigan virtually through a live presentation ...

For the majority of students, this spring break meant taking a time off from reading, writing or anything school related. However, last Wednesday one lucky group of local teens had the opportunity to ...