Julia Alvarez has written novels, collections of poems, nonfiction, and numerous books for young readers. Best known for In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, she recently published a new novel called Afterlife and a new picture book, Already a Butterfly. She is the recipient of a National Medal of Arts and numerous other awards. Julia gets caught reading What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley.
