In The Times Of Butterflies By Julia Alvarez
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Biography of Julia Alvarez
The author of the movie In the Times of Butterflies is Julia Alvarez. She was born in the year 1950 on 27 March in New York City. Julia was brought up in the Dominican Republic but at the age of 10, she left the country as her guardians had supported an attempt that was not successful in overthrowing a dictator called Rafael Trujillo and thus the reason they fled to Brooklyn. In 1971, she graduated from Middlebury College and later earned a master’s degree from the University of Syracuse in the year 1975. Looking at Julia’s works of poetry and fiction, the theme of being caught amid two different cultures is very evident. In the year 1991, she wrote her first novel named How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. …show more content…
This piece of work had both critical and commercial success. Later in the year 1994, she published her second novel, In the Time of Butterflies. Other fictional works followed including Saving the World that she made public in 2006. This earned Julia more fans and praise for her work worldwide (Broome 15). As a multitalented artist Julia has written children books such as, The secret Footprint in the year 2000and Tia Lola Came to Visit in 2001. She also has young adult novel like Before We Were Free, which she published in year 2002. Among her works, are poetries and essays. The latest poetry volume is The Woman I Kept to Myself created in 2004. Being married to Bill Eichner since the year 1989, Alvarez resides in Vermont. She has worked as a residence writer at the college of Middlebury in the recent
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Biography of Julia Alvarez
The author of the movie In the Times of Butterflies is Julia Alvarez. She was born in the year 1950 on 27 March in New York City. Julia was brought up in the Dominican Republic but at the age of 10, she left the country as her guardians had supported an attempt that was not successful in overthrowing a dictator called Rafael Trujillo and thus the reason they fled to Brooklyn. In 1971, she graduated from Middlebury College and later earned a master’s degree from the University of Syracuse in the year 1975. Looking at Julia’s works of poetry and fiction, the theme of being caught amid two different cultures is very evident. In the year 1991, she wrote her first novel named How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. …show more content…
This piece of work had both critical and commercial success. Later in the year 1994, she published her second novel, In the Time of Butterflies. Other fictional works followed including Saving the World that she made public in 2006. This earned Julia more fans and praise for her work worldwide (Broome 15). As a multitalented artist Julia has written children books such as, The secret Footprint in the year 2000and Tia Lola Came to Visit in 2001. She also has young adult novel like Before We Were Free, which she published in year 2002. Among her works, are poetries and essays. The latest poetry volume is The Woman I Kept to Myself created in 2004. Being married to Bill Eichner since the year 1989, Alvarez resides in Vermont. She has worked as a residence writer at the college of Middlebury in the recent