Author Julia Alvarez is Dominican-American. She was born in New York City in 1950 to political exiles from the Dominican Republic. Her parents returned to that country with their children when Alvarez was four months old. In 1960, after her father came under suspicion of working to overthrow the regime of dictator Rafael Trujillo, she and the rest of her family hastily moved back to the United States.
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