In 1960, the family was forced to flee to the United States after her father participated in a failed plot to overthrow the island's military dictator, Rafael Trujillo.
Critic Silvio Sirias believes that Dominicans value a talent for story-telling Alvarez developed this talent early and was "often called upon to entertain guests". She grew up with her extended family in sufficient comfort to enjoy the services of maids. When she was three months old, her family moved to the Dominican Republic, where they lived for the next ten years. Julia Alvarez was born in 1950 in New York City. In addition to her successful writing career, Alvarez is the current writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. In recent years, Alvarez has expanded her subject matter with works such as In the Name of Salomé (2000), a novel with Cuban rather than solely Dominican characters and fictionalized versions of historical figures. She is known for works that examine cultural expectations of women both in the Dominican Republic and the United States, and for rigorous investigations of cultural stereotypes. Her cultural upbringing as both a Dominican and an American is evident in the combination of personal and political tone in her writing. Many of Alvarez's works are influenced by her experiences as a Dominican in the United States, and focus heavily on issues of assimilation and identity. Many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant Latina writers, and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale. Her publications as a poet include The Housekeeping Book (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Īlvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.
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