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During the event, co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library’s Cambridge READS program and the Harvard Book Store, Alvarez told the audience about the impact literature has had on her life...
...Julia Alvarez, the famous Dominican author whose work focuses on the immigrant experience, described her growth as a Latina author to a crowd of nearly 500 in Sanders Theatre last night...
...author of five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...
...Alvarez said that she had originally doubted her ability to become an American writer, and cited Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too, Sing America” as giving her the courage to write...
...Bernardo Alvarez Herrera Venezuelan Ambassador...