id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8182 Junot Díaz - Wikipedia .html text/html 7480 1019 76 Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American[2] writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. In addition to the Pulitzer, The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao was awarded the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize,[28] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Novel of 2007 [29] the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction,[30] the 2008 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Award in 2007.[31] Díaz also won the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his article "He'll Take El Alto", which appeared in Gourmet, September 2007.[32] The novel was also selected by Time[33] and New York Magazine[34] as the best novel of 2007. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8182.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8182.txt