Julia Alvarez joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “
The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill,” by Judy Page Heitzman, and her own poem “
Mami at Her Vanity.” Alvarez is the author of many novels, nonfiction books, children’s books, and poetry collections, including, most recently, “
Visitations.” She has received a Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, and a National Medal of Arts. She’s also the subject of a PBS “American Masters” documentary.
