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Although born in New York, Julia Alvarez was raised in the Dominican Republic. In 1960, her father’s opposition to the regime of the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, forced the family to flee the country to the United States. Alvarez’s first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), garnered the author critical praise as an evocative storyteller. While García Girls parallels autobiographical elements of Alvarez’s own experiences, her second work, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), focuses on the history of the Mirabal sisters, three of whom were murdered for their political resistance to the Trujillo regime. In 1997 Alvarez returned to characters in García Girls in her novel Yo!, and continued to explore the complexity of Latina bilingual-bicultural experiences in U.S. culture. Alvarez’s essays appear in a range of magazines, from Latina magazine to the Sunday magazine section of The New York Times. Alvarez has also published several award-winning collections of poetry, and a novel depicting the life of Salome Ureña, In the Name of Salome (2000).
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