Salon.com > MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Junot Díaz is a genius http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/junot_diaz_is_a_genius/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/junot_diaz_is_a_genius/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:37:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13027569 Some guys have all the luck. And some guys totally deserve it. Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and "This Is How You Lose Her," has joined literary heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace in winning the MacArthur Foundation's Genius Grant, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship.

The MacArthur Foundation famously distributes grants to its anointed geniuses without conditions. This year's typically eclectic class includes a mandolinist, a pediatric neurosurgeon and a geochemist. (Yeah, that's a thing.) See the whole list here.

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