Junot Díaz (/ ˈ dʒ uː n oʊ / JOO-noh; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American [1] writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review.

Junot Díaz is the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and the critically acclaimed Drown.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey in the United States, where Díaz was raised, and it deals with the Dominican Republic's experience under …

Apr 9, 2018 · Junot Díaz, a creative-writing professor at M.I.T., was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” in 1999 and has regularly contributed both fiction and nonfiction since 1995.

Oct 30, 2023 · Junot Díaz has regularly contributed both fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker since 1995 and was named one of the magazine’s “20 Under 40” in 1999.

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the ...

Junot Díaz is an award-winning Dominican–American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. He became famous with his first collection of short stories, ‘Drown.’ He experienced unprecedented fame after publishing the ‘Pulitzer’-winning novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.’

…Now Then (2013); the Dominican-born Junot Díaz, who won acclaim for Drown (1996), a collection of stories, and whose novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) won a Pulitzer Prize; and the Bosnian immigrant Aleksandar Hemon, who wrote The Question of Bruno (2000) and Nowhere Man (2002). Chinese…