About Junot Diaz:
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
Junot DiazI can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
Junot Diaz