Junot Díaz is an award-winning Dominican–American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. He became famous with his first collection of short stories, ‘Drown.’ He experienced unprecedented fame after publishing the ‘Pulitzer’-winning novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.’ This novel has received numerous awards and has also earned him a lot of recognition. As a child who was a voracious reader, Díaz was destined to become an acclaimed writer. His second collection of short stories, ‘This is How you Lose Her,’ was also highly appreciated by critics and readers. He is an activist who supports the cause of immigrants in the U.S. He has also put himself in trouble for the same. However, in 2018, he got embroiled in a controversy of a larger scale, as a few writers accused him of sexual abuse.