In this conversation, Cruz shares her admiration for pioneering author Julia Alvarez (“How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” “In the Time of the Butterflies”) and the ways her ...

Her father was a chief surgeon, which gave her family financial comfort. But their political exile to Queens, New York, in ...

For extraordinary storytelling, in poetry and in prose, the 2013 National Medal of Arts to Julia Alvarez. [applause] clap, clap, clap Ramona: Julia's work came to solidify a new identity that was ...

Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels "How the GarcC-a Girls Lost Their Accents," "In the Time of the Butterflies" (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and "Yo!." She has also ...

Julia Alvarez, Author, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Read by, read by Daphne Rubin-Vega. Penguin Audio $39.95 (7p) ISBN 978-0-14-314219-5 With a voice that is at once huskily mature and sweetly girlish and ...

5. “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez This historical novel by Julia Alvarez tells the story of the Mirabal ...

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