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Author: Rafael Alvarez

A lifelong Baltimorean, born on Bob Dylan's 17th birthday, Rafael Alvarez has spent the last 35 years writing about his hometown -- and when he can get away with it -- nothing else. The author of the epic "Orlo and Leini" stories, he is about to finish a history of The Tuerk House, a pioneering drug and alcohol rehab in Baltimore that was one of the first facilities for the poor when alcoholism was decriminalized in 1968.

Alvarez wrote for each of the first three seasons of the HBO drama, " The Wire," and was especially involved in season two, which focuses on the Baltimore waterfront. His book about the show -- the encyclopedic "The Wire: Truth Be Told" -- was published by Grove/Atlantic and was nominated for a 2011 Edgar Award. 

His influences include the great Johnny Winter, Isaac Bashevis Singer and the art of Henry Ossawa Tanner.

Hospitality People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Silver State Summer Vacation 2012, Part 2
by Rafael Alvarez Hospitality People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk
Silver State Summer Vacation 2012, Part 2
Hospitality Life People & Places Talk Views Feeding Your Face on Vacation in the Silver State
by Rafael Alvarez Hospitality Life People & Places Talk Views
Feeding Your Face on Vacation in the Silver State
Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk A Fistful of Pennies
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk
A Fistful of Pennies
Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views One Too Many
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views
One Too Many
People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views I Me Mine
by Rafael Alvarez People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Views
I Me Mine
Life People & Places Talk Tinseltown Cab Fare
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Talk
Tinseltown Cab Fare
Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Front Yard Barbecue in the Mississippi Delta
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk
Front Yard Barbecue in the Mississippi Delta
Life People & Places Talk Views Goofy
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Talk Views
Goofy
Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk Four Decades with the Sailorettes
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Sights & Sounds Talk
Four Decades with the Sailorettes
People & Places Talk
by Rafael Alvarez People & Places Talk
Grandma Cronise's Crab Soup
Life People & Places Talk Sunday Supper with Honest Abe (Part 2): Where's Jimmy?
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Talk
Sunday Supper with Honest Abe (Part 2): Where's Jimmy?
Life People & Places Talk
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Talk
Sunday Supper with Honest Abe
Life People & Places Talk The ballad of Evelyn Butterhoff
by Rafael Alvarez Life People & Places Talk
The ballad of Evelyn Butterhoff
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