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 Julia Alvarez — the celebrated author of In the Time of the ...

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

Julia Alvarez, 74, has been thinking a lot about ... the central character — a celebrated Dominican American author, like her creator — regards her literary reputation with skepticism ...

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including the author herself, Julia Alvarez. She wrote, "Having come from a dictatorship where books were censored and ...