#Zinzi Clemmons

Author: Emma Stefansky / Source: Vanities Author Junot Diaz has withdrawn from the last few days of the Sydney Writers’ Festival following multiple sexual harassment claims leveled against him by female writers on Twitter. During a Q&A at the festival on Friday, Zinzi Clemmons, author of the

Author: Kristine Phillips / Source: Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz has withdrawn from a writers festival amid allegations that he had forcefully kissed a woman and showed aggressive behavior toward others. Writer Zinzi Clemmons said the incident happened when she was a

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

Author: Christie D’Zurilla / Source: latimes.com Los Angeles-based author Zinzi Clemmons is accusing Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz of forcibly kissing her when she was a grad student, and two other authors subsequently made allegations of verbal abuse. “I was an unknown wide-eyed 26

Source: New York Times An author on Friday accused the novelist Junot Díaz of kissing her against her will, setting off other accusations of abusive behavior by Mr. Díaz. The author, Zinzi Clemmons, who teaches writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles, said in a tweet that when she was a