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 ...

The last surviving sister that inspired Julia Alvarez’s award-winning novel “In the Time of the Butterflies” has passed away. Belgica Adela Mirabal died on Saturday, Feb. 1 of pulmonary complications ...

Julia Alvarez made a name for herself in the literary community with her critically acclaimed 1991 novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which drew inspiration from her own family’s migration ...

Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez will be the focus of a new documentary for PBS from “American Masters” and Latino Public Broadcasting. Timed to Hispanic Heritage Month, “Julia Alvarez: A Life ...

The WNET Group, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and Latino Public Broadcasting are among recipients of grants announced Tuesday by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The public TV organizations, ...

In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives. By Luis Alberto Urrea Luis Alberto Urrea’s most recent ...

Julia Alvarez, child of the sweltry Caribbean, loves winters in Vermont. Not the cold, no, but "the bareness and the quietness and the simplicity." A 10-inch blanket of snow apparently focuses the ...

On Monday Dominican-American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez will be among the 11 recipients of the 2013 National Medal of the Arts. President Obama will present the award to Alvarez in recognition of ...

In her first YA novel, Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) proves as gifted at writing for adolescents as she is for adults. Here she brings her warmth, sensitivity and eye for detail to ...