American · b. 1968
Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," a novel about a nerdy Dominican-American's quest for love, narrated in voice that blends Spanish, English, and footnotes on Caribbean history. The Dominican-American author's work examines immigrant experience, masculinity, and the legacy of dictatorship. Díaz writes with verbal energy that captures how people actually speak.