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Junot Díaz
John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
August 31, 2007–August 1, 2008
Profession
Writer and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project title
Tokyo Rose
Project description
In Rome, I will be working on my first novel, Tokyo Rose.