Julia Alvarez (Multiple Choice Questions Sample)

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Julia Alvarez was born of Dominican parent’s in1950 in New York City. After three months they were forced to move back to Dominican Republic where her father was involved in political rebellion and fled in America. She laid her foundation of becoming one of the most prominent writers as a result of immigration. Thou she had difficulties using English since it was her second language she learnt a lot in various schools about writing until she earned a Master's degree in creative writing from Syracuse University .
Alvarez first published work was The Housekeeping Book (1984). She went on and wrote her first major novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991).she also wrote some poetry books such as Homecoming (1991), In the Times of Butterflies (1994), In The Name Of Salome (2000), Saving the World (2006) and Return to Sender (2009).
As a result of her hard work in writing she earned recognition and won The National Endowment for the Art Grant (1987) , Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature(2002),The National Medal Of Art (2014 July28), on top of earning a living through writing.
Mainly the critical reception of Alvarez work have been positive praising her for her fluency in writing and dispersing a lot of information based on culture in her work. The negative criticism is that her work is caught between two cultures ba...