Julia Alvarez

25 years ago, Julia Alvarez wrote In the Time of the Butterflies, the story of four young women from a pious Catholic family that were assassinated in 1960 in the Dominican Republic after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders.

the only Alvarez I am to read

: Alvarez also wrote How the Garcia Girls Lost Dede's Accents which I thought was on my Challenge list, but the only Alvarez I am to read is In the Time of Butterflies.

poetry for children and young adults

In the Time of the Butterflies, Writer Julia Alvarez's published works include poetry and books for children and young adults.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to describe the sky and the sea.

by Carla Lane

Butterflies is a British sitcom series written by Carla Lane that was broadcast on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983.

Edna O'Brien

In Edna O'Brien's 1994 novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Edna O'Brien drew on the story of the four Mirabal sisters, who became Dominican legends when three of them were killed in 1960 after waging an underground fight against the Trujillo regime.

by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Tony Marchant

Created and penned by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Tony Marchant, Butterfly is a heartfelt and sensitive drama about the complex relationship between separated parents, Vicky (Friel) and Stephen (Emmett J. Scanlan), and their division in opinion over how to support their youngest child, Max (Booth-Ford).

The

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov published and illustrated many butterfly species,

by Bob Merrill

"Butterflies" is a popular song, written by Bob Merrill and recorded by Patti Page in 1953.

Vladimir Nabokov

Damien Hirst had a similar fascination with butterflies but Vladimir Nabokov was less interested in studying them and more in exploring the idea of death (most butterflies live as little as four weeks).

Robert Frost

To the poet Robert Frost, butterflies were ‘flowers that fly and all but sing’.

by Margaret Gatty

This butterfly story 's written by Margaret Gatty, an English naturalist, marine biologist, and author of children's literature.

Emily Dickenson

The titles for this series of butterflies are taken from quotes or poetry, this one was written by Emily Dickenson.

, award-winning author Esmeralda Santiago

In this best-selling memoir, award-winning author Esmeralda Santiago writes about the Butterflies's life, from growing up in rural Puerto Rico to immigrating to the United States in New York, with the Butterflies's mother and numerous siblings.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was not just writing about butterflies (though Henry David Thoreau uses one to excellent, redemptive effect at Walden's end)

by simply Patricia Leeway, circulated in typically the group Electrical Metropolis and

“Butterflies” is without a doubt some short-term history written by simply Patricia Leeway, circulated in typically the group Electrical Metropolis and also Some other Content (1987).

Janet Harvey Kelman (April 18, 1873 – November 15, 1957

Janet Harvey Kelman (April 18, 1873 – November 15, 1957), a Scottish illustrator and author, created many children’s books about nature, including Butterflies and Moths (1910) which was part of the “Shown to the Children” book series.

Peter Laufer

And thus, without quite intending to, Peter Laufer ended up writing a book about butterflies, after all.

John Tennent

Wales’s an anthology of poetry about insects, collected by butterfly expert John Tennent.

James Wright

We hear two great poems by W.S. Merwin (“One Or Two Things”), butterfly poems by Charles Wright and James Wright, and Emerson and Thoreau’s journals on the butterfly.