Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Julia Alvarez - Coggle Diagram
Julia Alvarez
Books
Novels
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Afterlife
In The Time Of The Butterflies
Finding Miracles
A Wedding In Haiti
Return To Sender
How Tia Lola Saved The Summer
Before We Were Free
The Woman I Kept To Myself
Facts
She was an English professor at Middlebury college
She was born on March 17, 1950
her father was a doctor in charge of a local hospital
Retired in 2016
She was the second of 4 daughters
She writes about childhood memories/experiences
History
She married Bill Eichner in 1989
Her family was forced to move back to the united stated when she was 10
Moved to the Dominican Republic when she was just a few months old
Was awarded the National medal of the arts by Barack Obama
Family
Married Bill Eichner
Dad
Sister #3
Sister #4
Mom
Julia Alvarez
Sister #1
Awards
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award For Outstanding Achievements In American Literature
Pura Belpre
Hispanic heritage Award In Literature