Junot Díaz

 

"Books have answered all my deepest questions; have been a mirror and a light, a companion and a faith. Books have taken me across the universe and back and have put me in communion with other human hearts, including my own. Books are the educators of our souls." 

 

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic, raised in New Jersey and is the author of 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 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship and PEN/O. Henry Award, among other accolades. 

 

A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop.

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