Junot Díaz

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born

December 31, 1968

gender

male

place of birth

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

website

http://www.junotdiaz.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer. He moved to the United States with his parents at age six, settling in New Jersey. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He is the first Dominican-born man to become a major author in the United States.

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avg rating: 3.92 | 26,416 ratings | 6,494 reviews | 5 distinct works | 102 fans

	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz avg rating 3.90 — 20,661 ratings — published 2007 27 editions	my rating:
	Drown by Junot Díaz avg rating 4.03 — 3,326 ratings — published 1996 18 editions	my rating:
	Beacon Best of 2001 by Junot Díaz avg rating 3.74 — 19 ratings — published 2001 2 editions	my rating:
	Hudson Book of Fiction: 30 Stories Worth Reading by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Kate Chopin (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), James Joyce (Contributor), Franz Kafka (Contributor) more... F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), Katherine Mansfield (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), D.H. Lawrence (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), Katherine Anne Porter (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), Ralph Ellison (Contributor), Isaac Bahevis Singer (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Alice Munro (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Louise Erdrich (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Contributor), Gish Jen (Contributor), Junot Díaz (Contributor) [close] avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas by Thomas Colchie (Editor / Translator), Junot Díaz (Contributor), Jorge Volpi (Contributor), Federico Andahazi (Contributor), Ernesto Mestre-Reed (Contributor), Ángeles Mastretta (Contributor), Carmen Posadas (Contributor), Edgardo Vega Yunqué (Contributor) more... Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Contributor), Laura Esquivel (Contributor), Ignacia Padilla (Contributor), Jaime Manrique (Contributor), Julia Alvarez (Contributor), Mayra Montero (Contributor), Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Contributor), Javier Valdés (Contributor), Laura Restrepo (Contributor), José Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Contributor), Carlos Franz (Contributor), Rafael Franco Steeves (Contributor), Anna Kazumi Stahl (Contributor) [close] avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2002 2 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Junot Díaz

"It's never the changes we want that change everything."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

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"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

tags: failure, success

24 people liked it

"Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven- where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with- he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge."
— Junot Díaz

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topics mentioning this author

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Literary Fiction ...: Discussion : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	44	27	Jan 19, 2009 08:11AM
The Book Challenge: Sarah's 2009 A-Z Title and Author Challenges	3	46	Jan 23, 2009 01:12PM
50 Books A Year: Giovanna's 2009 50+ list	4	68	Feb 02, 2009 04:16PM
The Critical Beat...: Top Ten Books Read in 2008?	5	157	Feb 19, 2009 12:14AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: March 2009-Crandall Public Library Mon. Evening Book Discussion Group	2	17	Mar 16, 2009 07:31AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: What are U reading these days? (Part Four) (begun 2/18/09)	207	93	Apr 03, 2009 09:11AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: _ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao_ by Junot Díaz	1	6	May 04, 2009 09:07PM
Novel Ladies: Group Read Nominations: August 2009 - Crystal's Group	48	47	Jun 27, 2009 02:38PM