Junot Diaz net worth is
$500,000
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Junot Diaz was born on December 31, 1968 in Villa Juana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a writer, known for Washington Heights (2002), Harvest of Empire (2012) and Habla Men (2014).
| Net Worth | $500,000 |
| Date Of Birth | December 31, 1968 |
| Place Of Birth | Villa Juana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Profession | Writer |
| Star Sign | Capricorn |
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| 1 | [re favorite episode of The Twilight Zone (1959)] I grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship, and even more immediately, with an older brother who was everyone's favorite, who could get away with almost anything, and so the episode that rocked me was "It's a Good Life" [based on the Jerome Bixby short story about a 3-year-old boy who's really a monster controlling his small town]. Bixby was a genius, and he dramatized the "banality of evil" with such sinister effortlessness. |
| 2 | I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived. |
| 3 | We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way. |
| 4 | We're accelerated. We don't have much time anymore for what we call spaces of deliberation. Spaces where we can sit around and think at a human pace about ourselves and our lives, and even things like what is the future. A human rhythm where you can think about the past, the present and the future at the same time. I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit. |
| 5 | I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable. |
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| 1 | He was nominated for the 2015 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services to Arts and Literature. |
| 2 | He was nominated for the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters Category. |
| 3 | He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his fictional novel entitled "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" in April 2008. |
| 4 | He graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1992 with a degree in English Literature. |
| 5 | He earned his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University in 1995. |
| 6 | He splits his time between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 7 | He is a writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambrige, Massachusetts. |
| 8 | He was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.". |
| 9 | He graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in Old Bridge, New Jersey in 1987. |
| 10 | His novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' was named as Novel of the Year by TIME in 2007. The film option has since been bought by Miramax. |
| 11 | Short story, Otra Vida, Ortra Vez, appeared in The New Yorker Magazine's "The Future of American Fiction" issue (June 21 & 28, 1999). |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Washington Heights | 2002 | additional dialogue | |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Nothing Like the Holidays | 2008 | special thanks | |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Habla Men | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| First Tuesday Book Club | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Panellist |
| Página 2 | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Colbert Report | 2008-2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| Moyers & Company | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| CBS This Morning | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Harvest of Empire | 2012 | Documentary | Himself (Pulitzer Prize winning writer) |
| Silenci? | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tavis Smiley | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
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