‘Genius’ grant winners
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will award each of these 23 fellows $500,000 over the next five years as a grant for their creative and promising work.
Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer who uses raw, vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants straddle.
(Tsar Fedorsky / Associated Press)