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 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

The last surviving sister that inspired Julia Alvarez’s award-winning novel “In the Time of the Butterflies” has passed away. Belgica Adela Mirabal died on Saturday, Feb. 1 of pulmonary complications ...

Julia Alvarez recounts the day she had to escape from the Dominican Republic with her family. Julia Alvarez and her sisters recount the day they had to escape from the Dominican Republic with their ...

I like to imagine fiction writers are a fairly collegial bunch when they’re not dreaming up stories. But more than a few of Julia Alvarez’s peers must be shaking their heads that she can take almost ...

Julia Alvarez made a name for herself in the literary community with her critically acclaimed 1991 novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which drew inspiration from her own family’s migration ...

The WNET Group, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and Latino Public Broadcasting are among recipients of grants announced Tuesday by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The public TV organizations, ...

Author and Middlebury College instructor Julia Alvarez will be among a dozen recipients of the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in a White House ...

In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives. By Luis Alberto Urrea Luis Alberto Urrea’s most recent ...

Julia Alvarez has written what she calls her first novel as "an elder." "It took a while to sort of process this stage of life that I'm in," she says. "And you know, what are the stories that I can ...

Julia Alvarez, child of the sweltry Caribbean, loves winters in Vermont. Not the cold, no, but "the bareness and the quietness and the simplicity." A 10-inch blanket of snow apparently focuses the ...

In her first YA novel, Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) proves as gifted at writing for adolescents as she is for adults. Here she brings her warmth, sensitivity and eye for detail to ...