Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.
31 December 1968
Born on the same birth date (31 December 1968): Gerry Dee
Born on the same birth day (31 December): Bob Gilder • Bryon Russell • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis • Connie Willis • Dennis Everberg • Emperor Go-Yōzei • Esteban Loaiza • Henri Matisse • Henry I, Duke of Guise • J. J. Arcega-Whiteside • Jan Smit (singer) • Jason Campbell • Konstantin Konik • ND Stevenson • Shrilal Shukla • Simon Forman • Tim Stevens
Born in the same month (December 1968): Akihiko Hoshide • Bryan Burk • Casper Van Dien • Darryl Kile • Emmanuelle Charpentier • Emre Aracı • Fabrizio Ravanelli • Jim Dowd (ice hockey) • Karyn Bryant • Lalah Hathaway • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz • Margaret Cho • Wendy Doolan • Yōko Oginome