# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julia-alvarez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:50:33.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julia-alvarez"
name: "Julia Alvarez"
slug: "julia-alvarez"
description: "Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers."
tagline: "Dominican-American poet, novelist, essayist (born 1950)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump