Author: Jocelyn McClurg / Source: USA TODAY
Junot Díaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has been accused of sexual harassment and bullying in the wake of the Me Too scandal.
Female authors including Zinzi Clemmons, Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne made the accusations Friday morning on Twitter, accusing the author of misconduct including “bullying and misogyny.
”In a tweet, Clemmons (What We Lose) said that when she was a graduate student, she invited Diaz, 49, to speak to a workshop. She described herself as a “wide-eyed 26-year-old” and
As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature. I was an unknown wide-eyed 26 yo, and he used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me. I’m far from the only one he’s done this 2, I refuse to be silent anymore.
— zinziclemmons (@zinziclemmons)
In response to Clemmons’ tweet, Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) tweeted that Díaz “went off on me for twenty minutes” when she questioned him during a Q&A about his protagonist’s “unhealthy, pathological relationship with women” during a graduate school Q&A about his book This Is How You Lose Her.
During his tour for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, Junot Díaz did a Q&A at the grad program I’d just graduated from. When I made the mistake of asking…
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