(What We Had Hoped Would Be) A Brief Conversation with Allan Fallow, Book Editor of AARP The Magazine   1. You worked as a senior editor at National Geographic Books from 1999 to 2002. What were some of your favorite titles? It was a thrill to edit David Mamet—he wrote a book called South of theContinue reading

Algonquin author Julia Alvarez, who grew up hearing stories about the Mirabal sisters, and whose family fled the Dominican Republic only months before the tragic deaths, immortalized the sisters’ story in her bestselling novel In the Time of the Butterflies, which was first published in 1994 and has been translated into 13 languages, as wellContinue reading