Junot Díaz

On September 2, Díaz takes the stage at Joe’s Pub for “Seriously Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Fiction.”

Junot Díaz writes with razor-sharp humor and unflinching honesty, capturing the contradictions of boyhood, race, family, and diaspora in a voice that’s instantly recognizable. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, he weaves together personal history and collective memory to illuminate what it means to live between worlds—culturally, linguistically, emotionally.

Díaz is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction: Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This Is How You Lose Her. His writing has earned him some of the most prestigious honors in American literature, including a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz now teaches writing at M.I.T. and serves as the fiction editor at Boston Review.

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