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Junot Díaz is the author of Drown (1996), a collection of short stories, and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968. He has two brothers and two sisters. Growing up, Díaz and his siblings lived in Santo Domingo with their mother while Díaz’s father went to the United States to work. His father sent for his family when Díaz was seven and they moved to New Jersey.
Díaz reports that his grades in high school were awful. He did however spend a lot of time reading everything he could find in the library. He also wrote a Stephen King-esque novel that he says was “garbage.” Díaz worked various jobs before becoming a writer, including working at a steel mill and delivering pool tables.
Díaz attended Rutgers University and received his bachelor's degree in History and Literature. While at Rutgers, Díaz lived in Demarest, the dorm where Oscar and Yunior live in the novel. After going to Rutgers, Díaz pursued a Master of Fine Art
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Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. read more
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Junot Díaz
Dominican-American writer and academic (born 1968)
Junot Díaz (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. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants.[2] Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.[3]
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.
Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and recei
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