Julia Alvarez is the author of several novels for young readers including How T�a Lola Came to Visit Stay, Finding Miracles, and Before We Were Free, winner of the ALA's Pura Belpr� Award. Her books for adults include How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Once Upon a Quincea�era. She is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.