Junot Díaz

About Junot Díaz

Dominican novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, his debut novel. He also won multiple accolades for his short stories, the most notable of which being Drown, which he published in 1996.

Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer, professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and novel editor at the Boston Review. He also serves on the advisory board of the Free University, a voluntary organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary education to undocumented immigrants. At the heart of Díaz's work is the experience of immigrants, in particular the experience of Latino immigrants. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz and his family immigrated to New Jersey when he was just 6 years old. He held a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and, shortly after graduating, created the character "Yunior", who served as a storyteller for several of his later books. After earning a Masters of Fine Arts from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the Drown short story anthology of 1995. Diaz was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Novel for the novel Life of Miracles. scholarship in 2012.

Period	1997–present
Nationality	American, Dominican
Born	December 31, 1968, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award (2007), Pulitzer Prize (2008), MacArthur Fellowship (2012) Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
Occupation	Novelist, professor, writer
Education	Rutgers University (BA), Cornell University (MFA)

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He taught creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also served as the editor of The Boston Review.

Junot Díaz before fame

In 1992, he graduated from Rutgers College with a bachelor's degree in English. In 1995, he received his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University.

Achievement of Junot Díaz

He was the editor of The Boston Review and taught creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

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Junot Díaz family life

As the third of five siblings, he grew up in the Dominican Republic. He has been Marjorie Liu's domestic partner for a long period.

Associations of Junot Díaz

Toni Morrison was one of his biggest influences, he said.

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