Rafael Alvarez

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rafael Alvarez
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1958(1958-05-24)
Age	66
Birthplace	Baltimore
Country	United States
Birth City	Maryland
Horoscope	Taurus

Rafael Alvarez Biography

Rafael Alvarez is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on May 24, 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Rafael Alvarez, born May 24, 1958 in Baltimore, is an American author. Alvarez started his career at the Sunpapers of Baltimore when he was a teenager. He worked in the circulation department, then moved to the horse racing desk. After that, he joined the City Desk as a utility man. Alvarez worked for The Sun from 1977 to 2001. Alvarez was a ship laborer after he left the newspaper. He then joined the staff at HBO’s drama The Wire. Alvarez also worked as a crew member on the NBC crime dramas Life, and The Black Donnellys.

The Sun published two anthologies featuring his journalism: Hometown Boy (1999), and Storyteller (2001).

He left The Wire’s writing staff after the show’s third season. He now splits his time between Baltimore and Los Angeles. He worked as a writer and consulting producer for the gambling drama Tilt in 2005. He wrote the episode “Nobody Ever Listens”. The series was cancelled while airing its first season. He worked as a staff writer and producer on Andre Braugher’s FX cable mini- series, Thief in 2006. He worked on Paul Haggis’ NBC drama The Black Donnellys in 2007. He was credited as a producer and wrote the episode “The Only Sure Thing”. The series aired as a mid-season replacement and was cancelled after thirteen episodes.

The first of three sons of Manuel Rafael Alvarez and the former Gloria Jones, the author was born at St. Agnes Hospital in southwest Baltimore across from a former Catholic orphanage and reform school—St. Mary’s Industrial School—attended by Babe Ruth. He was raised in suburban Linthicum and graduated in 1976 from Mt. St. Joseph High School. Alvarez is of Italian, Polish, and Spanish descent and was raised in a culturally Polish-American home. He is often assumed to be Hispanic, but he does not identify as such.

Alvarez is also a fiction writer and has two short fiction collections: Orlo and Leini (2001) and The Fountain of Highlandtown (1997). The first includes “The Fountain of Highlandtown”, an autobiographical short story that won the Baltimore City Artscape Award. Alvarez is currently working on Sea Stories, a collection of short stories. Alvarez credits his journalistic experience with giving him a wealth information for his fiction. He also published First and Forever: A People’s History of the Archdiocese Baltimore. Three short stories were contributed by Alvarez to Out of Tune (2006). Alvarez’s daughter Sofia and Baltimore musicians Jason Tinney, Rosalia Schillia, and Airin Miller also contributed stories to the project.

Rafael Alvarez Net Worth

Rafael Alvarez is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rafael Alvarez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alvarez started his journalism career in 1977. He wrote for the new Baltimore weekly, the City Paper, while also working in the circulation section of the Baltimore Sun and dispatching trucks. Alvarez moved to the sports section of the paper in 1978 to compile results from horse racing. He was transferred to the City Desk in 1981 and taught himself how to write obituaries. He worked at the Sun until January 2001 when he was forced to take a buyout. Then he went to work on merchant ships as a laborer.

While attending Loyola College in Baltimore, he returned to Baltimore and bought a rowhome at North Ellwood Avenue in East Baltimore. He moved in to the house of his grandparents on Macon Street, Greektown, a decade later.

In 2001, Alvarez left the Baltimore Sun and joined the Seafarers International Union with the intention of working on ships. He has since worked as a writer/producer on several television shows. Alvarez first worked in television as a freelance screenwriter on Homicide: Life on the Street contributing the teleplay for the sixth season episode “All is Bright”. The show was based on a book by his former Sun colleague David Simon who was working as a producer on the sixth season in 1997 when Alvarez was hired.

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Rafael Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rafael Alvarez celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.