In December 1974 he immigrated to Parlin, New Jersey, where he was re-united with his father. Throughout most of his early childhood, he lived with his mother and grandparents while his father worked in the United States. He was the third child in a family of five. 2.3 2012–present: This Is How You Lose Her and other worksĭíaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.2.2 2005–11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.ĭiaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012. 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. īorn in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz immigrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants.
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was fiction editor at Boston Review.
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