Pulitzer-prize winning author Junot Díaz will speak at Middlesex County College at 6 p.m. on Oct. 14 in the Performing Arts Center, Middlesex County College, 2600 Woodbridge Ave., Edison. Admission is free but reservations are required. Visit Middlesexcc.edu/student-activities/junotdiaz to RSVP.
Mr. Díaz will discuss his career as an award-winning author and advocate of social justice.
Mr. Díaz is the author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; “Drown”; and “This Is How You Lose Her,” a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.
He was also awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Mr. Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey.
