Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz: How a Book Transforms Its Author

Arts, Culture & Media

Junot Diaz says writing about a fictional adolescence launched a professional coming-of-age, but he’s still fifteen years behind.

Summer reading picks

Arts, Culture & Media

Immigration, Race and Hair, Through Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Eyes

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Junot Diaz

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Summer reading picks

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Junot Diaz: Literary Growing Pains

He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Junot Diaz tells Kurt that many of the students he teaches at MIT don’t even know that he’s a writer. And he likes it that way. “If you want people just to like you,” says Diaz, “there’s a thousand other […]