Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer whose fiction centers on the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino one. Born in Santo Domingo, he moved with his family to New Jersey at six, and he is best known for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He also wrote the 1995 story collection Drown, along with This Is How You Lose Her and Islandborn. He teaches creative writing at MIT.