Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Junot Diaz Discusses His Love Of Comics
It's no secret that Junot Díaz is a huge comic fan. In his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the titular character is a young Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey who is obsessed with comics, science fiction, and fantasy (The title of the first chapter is "Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World"), and is a reflection of the writer's own lifelong interests