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 ...

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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 ...

American Masters presents “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The documentary will also be available to stream on the PBS app. Julia Alvarez ...

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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