Stanford Humanities Center
The Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University presents the Annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture featuring author Junot Diaz, who will be delivering this year's thought-provoking lecture titled, "Notes From a Book of the Dead."
About the Speaker
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, and This Is How You Lose Her. Díaz has been awarded a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the 2002 PEN/Malamud Award and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Díaz is a MacArthur fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
About the Series
St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture presented by the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS). Visit our website at aaas.stanford.edu for more information about the department.
Co-sponsored by: Department of English, Stanford Humanities Center, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Center for the Study of the Novel
When
Location
Memorial Church
450 Jane Stanford Way
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