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I started writing seriously during college, but in a way to earn a living right after college, but my first novel, How the García Girls Lost.Julia Alvarez
American poet, novelist, essayist
For the Spanish lawyer, see Julia Álvarez Resano.
Not to be confused with Julián Álvarez.
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist.
She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998).
She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
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Julia Alvarez has also written several books for younger readers. Her first picture book for children was "The Secret Footprints" published in 2002. Alvarez has gone on to write several other books for young readers, including the "Tía Lola" book serie
