Junot Díaz
Author · 16 books
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed 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 “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. 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.
Series
Books
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007
Nightmare Magazine 49
October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
2016
Nilda. El sol, la luna, las estrellas. Otravida, otravez.
1999
The Cheater's Guide to Love
2012
The Beacon Best of 2001
Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures
2001
How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie
1997
The Best American Short Stories 2016
2016
Buzz Books 2012
2012
Fiesta, 1980
2012
Wildwood
2025
Islandborn
2018
This Is How You Lose Her
2010
Drown
1995
Apocalypse
What Disasters Reveal
2011
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999
Wastelands 2
More Stories of the Apocalypse
2015
