“Hip, irreverent, funny, and above all, fiercely intelligent” and one of The New Yorker’s 20 top writers for the 21st century, Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his “astoundingly great” (Time) debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Born in the Dominican Republic, Díaz draws heavily on his own experience of American culture as an immigrant. He teaches creative writing at MIT and is the fiction editor at the Boston Review.