Junot Díaz is a highly acclaimed author, born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is currently a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also serves as the fiction editor at Boston Review. Díaz's work is widely recognized for its excellence, as he has received numerous prestigious awards for his writing.
Díaz has written several critically acclaimed pieces, including the highly acclaimed collection of short stories, Drown, as well as the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has also been featured on the New York Times bestseller list, and he has been honored with a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award.
In addition to his accomplishments as an author, Díaz is also an accomplished educator. He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers College, and now serves as the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work as a professor and fiction editor allows him to give back to the literary community and help shape the next generation of writers.
Standalone Novels
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007
Short Stories/Novellas
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1
The Cheater's Guide to Love
2019
Picture Books
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Year
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1
Islandborn
2018
Collections
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Drown
1996
2
This Is How You Lose Her
2012
Non-Fiction Books
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Apocalypse
2011
2
Global Dystopias
2017
3
Evil Empire
2018
Faber Stories Books
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)
1955
2
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)
1968
3
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)
1982
4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)
1983
5
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)
1989
6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)
1997
7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)
1998
8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)
2009
9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)
2011
10
The Cheater's Guide to Love
2012
11
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)
2014
12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)
2014
13
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)
2016
14
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)
2019
15
The Victim (By: P.D. James)
2019
16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)
2019
17
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)
2019
18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)
2019
19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)
2019
20
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)
2019
21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)
2019
22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)
2019
23
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)
2019
24
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)
2019
25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)
2019
26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)
2019
27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)
2019
28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)
2019
Junot Díaz Anthologies
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
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What Are You Looking At?
2003
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
4
Rotten English
2007
5
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
2007
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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
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Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
2012
8
Mothership
2013
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Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
2013
10
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York
2014
11
Glimmer Train Stories, #91
2014
12
Immigrant Voices
2014
13
Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices
2014
14
Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop