Junot Diaz

Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968. He has two brothers and two sisters. Growing up, Díaz and his siblings lived in Santo Domingo with their mother while Díaz’s father went to the United States to work. His father sent for his family when Díaz was six. Their family lived in a poor part of New Jersey populated primarily by Dominicans.
He was a poor student at Madison Park Elementary and then at Cedar Ridge High School. Worked at a mill and at a pool house.
1992 - Graduated from Rutgers; creates "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books
1995 - MFA from Cornell University, while working as editorial assistant at Rutgers Press. Publishe his first short story collection "Drown"
2007 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao wins several awards.

 2012 - Publishes short story collection This is How you Lose Her (with "Otravida Otravez")