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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review, and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT. 
Lola
Islandborn
This Is How You Lose Her
Best African American Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Drown

Books

Lola
Islandborn
This Is How You Lose Her
Best African American Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Drown

March Children’s Hot Titles

Happy Spring! (We can hope right?) March is a packed month. With a new title by fan favorite Gayle Forman and the global sequel to She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton, as well as exciting debuts, like The Beauty That Remains, you’ll have plenty to look forward to! Check out the rest below. Order Form: Childrens_HotTitles_March_2018

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Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz to publish a picture book

The New York Times exclusively reported that ISLANDBORN, a debut picture book by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Díaz and illustrated by Leo Espinosa, will be published in March 2018 by Penguin Young Readers. Per the Times:  “Islandborn” is a picture book — Mr. Díaz’s first work of fiction for young readers. It grew out of

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