Junot Diaz, Hammer Readings

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3/17/08 -- Junot Diaz's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews. His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Diaz is a professor of creative writing at MIT. Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA and Hammer Readings at www.hammer.ucla.edu.

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