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Article: Mixed Breed - A profile of Julia Alvarez.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Linda Simon is professor of English at Skidmore College and a frequent contributor to The World & I. The author of Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt Brace, 1998), Of Virtue Rare (1982), Thornton Wilder: His World (1979), and The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (1977), she edited William James Remembered (1996) and Gertrude Stein Remembered (1994).
"Once upon a time," Julia Alvarez wrote in an essay entitled "First Muse," "I lived in another country and in another language under a cruel dictatorship, which my father was plotting to overthrow." That time was the 1950s, when she was growing up in the Dominican Republic, then under the rule of Gen. ...