Francisco Alvarado is a noted playwright of zarzuela in Lineyte-Samarnon (Waray). He was a member and literary luminary of the Sanghiran san Binisaya organization which was founded in 1909 to cultivate the Waray language.
Panulaan At Dulaang Leytenhon-Samarnon
Jaime Biron Polo, Editor and translator
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1994