“It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.” KnowsWayWritingBookYoungStudentsReaderLet MeInspiredPassionateEducatorYoung Students Author:Julia Alvarez
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“As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure.” WorldWritingFirstsSaidFactsYoungMotherLiteratureLeftLanguageTeacherCollegeModelsAmerican LiteratureYoung WritersLatina Author:Julia Alvarez
