About this item
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diacuteazrsquos first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with ldquothe dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poetrdquo Newsweek. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named Fiction Book of the Yearrdquo by Time magazine and spent more than weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing itself ndash with more than a million copies in print ndash as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer, Diacuteaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Criticrsquos Circle Award, the PENMalamud Award, the PENO. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award.Now Diacuteaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love ndash obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love.
About the Author
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.
