This is how you lose her. About the Author: Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz, age 39, was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey with his parents when he was six. He has written other books besides This is How You Lose Her. His other books are The Breif Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao and critically acclaimed Drown. He is also the cofounder of the VONA workshop, which is the only multi-genre workshop for writers of color in the nation. Currently he is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has won numerous awards such as the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 and the National Book Critics Circle Award.