Pursuits
Pulitzer-Winner Junot Diaz Gets $500,000 MacArthur Grant
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While in Chicago last month promoting his latest book, fiction writer Junot Diaz was invited to visit the offices of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Diaz figured that staff members at the nonprofit wanted just to talk to him about possibly nominating future candidates for its coveted “genius” awards. Instead, Daniel Socolow, the MacArthur Fellows program director, walked Diaz into a conference room and told him that he was a winner of one of the $500,000 grants.