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Junot Díaz, author portrait
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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is 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, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review, and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT. 
Islandborn
Lola
This Is How You Lose Her
Best African American Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Drown

Books

Islandborn
Lola
This Is How You Lose Her
Best African American Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Drown

The Creature of Habit

A delightful picture book about a creature of habit whose routine suddenly gets disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a new friend. A perfect story for little readers learning social emotional skills that explores the joy of trying something new! A very big creature with big teeth, big eyes, and very big feet lives on

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