Julia Alvarez was born on March 27, 1950 in New York City, New York. Her parents, both native to the Dominican Republic, soon moved back to their home-country. There Alvarez was raised until she was 10 and was forced to leave the country due to her family’s support of a failed overthrowing of the current dictator, Rafael Trujillo. She struggled in the new country, having grown up in Dominica, but graduated from Middlebury College, and later Syracuse University. Alvarez wrote her first book, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents in 1991 and followed up with In the Time of the Butterflies. Garcia Girls was about the Garcia sisters and their struggle to adapt as immigrants in America, while still holding tight to their Island/Latino culture. Butterflies is the story of the Mirabal sisters, 4 girls who played a key role in the Dominican Republic’s revolution of Trujillo. The story is true, though Alvarez has admitted openly and without hesitation that she certainly used her poetic license in crafting the story, due to “not enough information” for a truly biographical tale. Julia Alvarez is currently 64 and resides in her Alma Mater, Middlebury College.
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