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Julia, who spent most of her childhood living in the Dominican Republic, is a writer-in residence at Middlebury College. Her books, found at www.juliaalvarez.com, include How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and In the Name of Salomé. In the Time of the Butterflies was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into a movie in 2001 starring Salma Hayack and Marc Anthony. Julia’s husband, Bill, hails from the Midwest. He is an ophthalmologist by trade but is also a gardener, chef, and cookbook author. Julia and Bill live in Vermont but maintain close ties to her homeland through Alta Gracia, their organic coffee farm, which was established to demonstrate the ideas and principles of sustainable living. |
