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Quiara Alegra Hudes is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful, the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue. Her other works include Barrio Grrrl!, a children's musical; 26 Miles; Yemaya's Belly and The Happiest Song Plays Last, the third piece in The Elliot Plays trilogy.
'there's an unassailable heart to Hudes' work - a fierce compassion for the people she creates and an equally ardent love for the ethnically and culturally diverse city that raised her' * Guardian * 'Daphne's Dive is the kind of place 'where everybody knows your name.'... Ms. Hudes has a supple feel for characterization and a wide-ranging sympathy for life's waifs and strays. And like the characters on Cheers, the regulars at Daphne's make up an informal family with whose triumphs and troubles we come to sympathize.' * New York Times * 'A slow-burning, vibrantly sketched portrait of a scruffy North Philly booze joint run by love-scarred Daphne... Most bartenders listen to others' problems, but Daphne's cheerful reticence about her own demons makes us lean forward.' * Time Out New York *
