Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz Díaz in 2012 Born (1968-12-31) December 31, 1968 (age 46) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Occupation Novelist, professor, writer Nationality American, Dominican Period 1995-present Website www.junotdiaz.com Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 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. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.