How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Resources

The author has a pretty sweet website, with tons of news about upcoming books, appearances by the author, and links to her blog entries.

The Encyclopedia of World Biography has a pretty extensive write-up on Ms. Alvarez, including her family history, her literary career, and her most recent ventures.

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents hasn't been made into a movie, but another novel by Julia Alvarez has. If you can't get enough of Ms. Alvarez's stunning character development, check out this film adaptation of In the Time of the Butterflies. Bonus—it stars Salma Hayek!

This short movie is based on one of the stories from Julia Alvarez's collection ¡Yo!. Yolanda García visits her family in the Dominican Republic. And her American boyfriend tags along. We imagine hilarity ensues.

In this interview with The Atlantic in July of 2000, Julia Alvarez talks about how moving to the U.S. made her a writer, her teaching, and the tricky issue of writing about people you know.

Alvarez writes an article for the magazine Salon about the tradition of the quinceañera, a coming-out party for Hispanic teenage girls. And she's sort of blown away by how elaborate—and how expensive—the tradition has become.

Carlos García didn't succeed in killing Trujillo, but someone else did in real life. And the BBC interviewed him.

Julia Alvarez won the 2009 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, woot! Here you can watch an interview where she talks about her experiences as a young immigrant to the United States. One YouTube commenter describes the author as "quirky." What do you think?

Can you imagine going to your public library to catch an interview with a literary rockstar like Julia Alvarez? Well these lucky ducks in New York got to do just that in September of 2010.

Julia Alvarez tells us why she's really, really happy she gets to vote.

In this podcast by National Endowment for the Arts, Julia Alvarez talks about the process of writing her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, a novel about four sisters, three of whom were killed for opposing the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

Julia Alvarez introduces her latest book, Return to Sender, a story about Mexican migrant laborers who work on farms in Vermont. Both the book and the interview are geared toward young readers (ages 10 and up), but we still thought it was cool.

Julia, meet Shmoopers. We're sure you're going to be fast friends.

We have no idea what these flowers and hummingbirds have to do with the story of the García girls, but they sure do look pretty.

Here are some lovely palm trees on a lovely beach in the Dominican Republic. But now we can't look at this picture without remembering Carlos García ask about his daughter's love life with the phrase: "Have you gone behind the palm trees?"

Maps are very useful things. Check out this one of the Dominican Republic.