Her father was a chief surgeon, which gave her family financial comfort. But their political exile to Queens, New York, in 1960 would have a profound effect on her upbringing. Now, a PBS documentary ...

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 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

If a story is never told, where does it go? Does it stay with the author? Does it fade into the void? Or does it find a way to be told? These are just a few of the questions asked in Julia Alvarez’s ...

Critically-acclaimed author Julia Alvarez is the focus of the American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined.” The hour-long film will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, on New ...

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Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” is a book about the power of narratives and the way they shape us. Engaging and written in a playful, crystal-clear prose, this novel explores ...

LAWRENCE — Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez told a capacity crowd at Northern Essex Community College about our need to establish connections by telling and listening to each others’ stories.

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In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Julia Alvarez's latest novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Algonquin, Apr.), which follows sixty-something writer Alma Cruz as she deals with ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded ...

Acclaimed author Julia Alvarez has weighed in on the Tillamook School District’s decision to remove her classic coming-of-age novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents” from the syllabus of its ...