Author Julia Alvarez is the Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture Speaker at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in Philadelphia
October 24, 2019
October 24, 2019
CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 24 -- The American Library Association issued the following news release:
Poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. When she arrived in New York City, it was clear that American English would be a hill to climb. "I couldn't tell where one word ended and another began," she says. This, she believes, is what led her to become a writer as she paid close attention to every wor . . .
Poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. When she arrived in New York City, it was clear that American English would be a hill to climb. "I couldn't tell where one word ended and another began," she says. This, she believes, is what led her to become a writer as she paid close attention to every wor . . .