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Now, a PBS documentary premiering Tuesday will show how bestselling author Julia Alvarez, who was born in New York and lived the first 10 years of her life in the Dominican Republic, became one of ...
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo!
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel (2024) is a work of magical realism and the seventh novel by Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez.The book follows Alma, a prolific author who, after retiring from her teaching job and writing career, inherits a plot of land in the Dominican Republic where she decides to create a cemetery for her unfinished manuscripts and notes.
The award-winning author of 'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' on Angie Cruz, 'To The Lighthouse,' and The Book That Made Her Miss a Train Stop.
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Timed to Hispanic Heritage Month, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” will premiere on Tuesday, Sept, 17 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. The program will be presented by “American Masters” and the LPB ...
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Paul Monette, author and activist (graduated 1963) John U. Monro, academic administrator and dean of Harvard College; William Henry Moody, U.S. Supreme Court justice (graduated 1871) Edwin V. Morgan, United States Ambassador to Brazil 1912-1933; Samuel Morse, inventor of the single-wire telegraph and Morse Code (graduated 1805)