Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Julia Alvarez
Dominican-American Poet, Novelist and Essayist
"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."
"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life."
"A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart."