Author


 * Julia Alvarez **

Life Background: She was raised in the Dominican Republice. It was 1960 when Alvarez arrived in the United States, which was hard for her because she only spoke spanish. "I came into English as a ten-year-old from the Dominican Republic, and i consider this radical uprooting from my culture, my naive language, my country, the reason i began writing." **
 * Born:(1950) New York City


 * Alvarez once said that Writing To Ease The Pain.

Alvarez earned her Masters Degree in creaive writing a Syracuse University.

Alvarez wrote the story Antojos that relates the story of a Dominican woman who has settled in the United States.The story captures what happens when she revisits er homeland and confronts the culture she had left behind... **