In 1994, Dominican-American author Julia Álvarez published her novel In the Time of the Butterflies, a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters.

According to Dominican-American writer and MIT creative writing professor Junot Díaz, Gilbert Hernández ideally would be considered " one of the greatest American storytellers ".

The sisters are mentioned in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ( 2007 ) by Dominican-American novelist Junot Díaz.

Coonrod Martínez suggests that a subsequent generation of Dominican-American writers, such as Angie Cruz, Loida Maritza Pérez, Nelly Rosario, and Junot Díaz, have been inspired by Alvarez's success.

Bergenline Avenue is also used as the route for local parades, such as the annual Memorial Day Parade Cuban Day Parade and Dominican-American Parade.

* Alex Rodriguez ( born 1975 ), Dominican-American Baseball player for the New York Yankees.

Moisés Rojas Alou (; Spanish: ; born July 3, 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is a former Dominican-American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for 17 seasons in the National League.

José Alberto Pujols Alcántara ( born January 16, 1980 ), better known as Albert Pujols (), is a Dominican-American professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball.

Plácido Enrique Polanco (; born October 10, 1975 ) is a Dominican-American Major League Baseball player who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies and has also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers.

Juan Pedro ( J. P .) Villamán ( April 5, 1959-May 30, 2005 ) was a Dominican-American sportscaster who served as the Spanish language play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox.

* Charlie Villanueva ( 1984-), a Dominican-American basketball player for the NBA

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is the first novel by a Dominican-American woman to receive widespread acclaim and attention in the United States.

The Dominican-American author's novel addresses many themes, including young adult sexuality and national identity, also present in Obejas ' work.

Proyecto Uno is a Dominican-American merenrap group which helped popularize a musical style that blends Merengue with rap, techno, dancehall reggae, and hip hop.

Proyecto Uno ( English: Project One ) is a Dominican-American merenrap group which helped popularize a style of music which blends merengue with rap, techno, dancehall reggae and hip-hop music.

* Guillermo Linares ( 1975 ), New York City Council member, first Dominican-American City Council member and Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs

* Aventura Dominican-American bachata music group, formed in The Bronx, New York

* 1905 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor ( d. 1984 )

* Alex Arias ( born 1967 ), Dominican-American former Major League Baseball player.

* Merlin Santana ( 1976 – 2002 ), Dominican-American actor also Tupac's brother-in-law.

David Américo Ortiz Arias ( born November 18, 1975 ), nicknamed " Big Papi ", is a Dominican-American professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox.

Julia Alvarez ( born March 27, 1950 ) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.

* Chrissy Lum: Maya's Dominican-American friend.

Manuel Arístides " Manny " Ramírez Onelcida ( born May 30, 1972 ) is a Dominican-American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter.

Duaner Sánchez ( born October 14, 1979 ) is a retired Dominican-American professional baseball player.

* Roy Love ' 88 assumed command of the USS BOONE on June 4, 2010, making him the first Dominican-American to become captain of a Navy ship.

* December 31 – Junot Díaz, author

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz called the series " his favorite guilty pleasure " in a profile for Time Magazine.

The selection included stories by Graham Joyce, Kristen Sundberg Lunstrum, E. V. Slate, John Burnside, Mohan Sikka, L. E. Miller, Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Caitlin Horrocks, Ha Jin, Paul Theroux, Judy Troy, Nadine Gordimer, Viet Dinh ( not to be confused with conservative jurist Viet Dinh ), Karen Brown ( author ), Marisa Silver, Paul Yoon, Andrew Sean Greer and Junot Díaz, with A. S. Byatt, Tim O ' Brien and Anthony Doerr – all authors of past O. Henry Prize Stories – serving as the prize jury.

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro ( July 24, 1919-July 22, 1999 ) was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s.

* John Kenneth Turner — ( 1879 – 1948 ) author of Barbarous Mexico ( 1910 ), an account of the exploitative debt-peonage system used in Mexico under Porfirio Díaz.

As one author puts it, " Many Angelenos saw the death of José Díaz as a tragedy that resulted from a larger pattern of lawlessness and rebellion among Mexican American youths, discerned through their self-conscious fashioning of difference, and increasingly called for stronger measures to crack down on juvenile delinquency.

Bernal Díaz, the author of an account of Cortés ' conquest of the Aztecs, served as a rodelero under Cortés.

" The author also states that he was on Patmos when he received his first vision:

" Furthermore, the author received much hate mail from Communists both at home and abroad.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.

According to German author Andreas Kossert Polish parties were financed and aided by the Polish government in Warsaw, and remained splintergroups without any political influence, e. g. in the 1932 elections the Polish Party received 147 votes in Masuria proper.

Questions as to whether Terence received assistance in writing or was not the actual author have been debated over the ages, as described in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

She received nineteen Locus Awards for her fiction, more than any other author.

* New Zealand author and poet Janet Frame received a literary award in 1951 the day before a scheduled lobotomy was to take place, and it was never performed.

Throughout Iolanthe, however, both author and composer managed to couch the criticism among such bouncy, amiable absurdities that it is all received as good humour.

He was the author of Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy ( 1849 ), a defence of the clergy of the 17th Century, which received the approval of Gladstone.

Waite was a prolific author with many of his works being well received in academic circles.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

McCrae received numerous letters and telegrams praising his work when he was revealed as the author.

So that he might be the author, of so great a gift, he received him like a guest, but attacked Triptolemus, with a sword, while he was in deep sleep.

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

* Caroline Miller, author who was Georgia's first Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ; she received the award for Lamb in his Bosom in 1934.

Norton, a proponent of motivational author Napoleon Hill's writings ( e. g. Think and Grow Rich as noted above and Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude by Hill and W. Clement Stone ) also received the " Napoleon Hill Award " for positive thinking in 1973 ( Norton, et al., 2000, p. 46 ).

The same author who relates this anecdote was received on 24 of his Marshal commissioned to bring the Emperor the Bulletin of the battle.

Once the Committee has received the comments from the State these comments will be provided to the author who can then issue a response ( generally within two months ).

Still, Doc was given co-credit as an author, and he soon received a royalty check for $ 1500. 00, which convinced him that songwriting was a career direction well worth pursuing.

After its release, the author received death threats in her home country and has been living in exile ever since.

The plan of the book is that the author imagines a statue organized inwardly like a man, animated by a soul which has never received an idea, into which no sense-impression has ever penetrated.

As a lawyer, Hiraide received widespread fame ( or notoriety, depending on political viewpoint ) for his defense of anarchist author Ōsugi Sakae, the defendants in the High Treason Incident, and for his defense of feminist poet Yosano Akiko over government criticism of her anti-war poetry.

* Victor T. " Vic " Stelly ( born 1941 ), former Republican state representative from Calcasieu Parish and author of the Stelly Plan, received his Bachelor of Science in education from NSU in 1962.