T.J. Raphael of the White Plains Patch recently reported this about the Pulitzer Prize winning author: Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the fiction novel, "The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao," visited White Plains Highlands Middle School on Dec. 15. Students in Yakira Tejada's class had written the author letters who then felt inspired to visit the school. Diaz has also written the critically acclaimed novel "Drown." His work has appeared in the New Yorker, African Voices and in Best American Short Stories.See that webpage here. The author also wrote: Drown, Negocios, and La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition). Over the years, the author's spoken at popular venues, such as the Google corporate event series, "Authors at Google" and was also a guest on The Colbert Report.
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