Stanford Presidential Lecturer Junot Díaz featured in new website
The Stanford Libraries have recently published the latest addition to our long-running website series focusing on the University's Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts. This installment highlights the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Junot Díaz, the acclaimed author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and two short story collections, who will be visiting Stanford on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
The Junot Díaz website, written and curated by Rebecca Wingfield (the Libraries' Curator for American and British Literature), includes an original essay on Díaz and his work, a selected (but extensive) bibliography, and a selection of excerpts from the writer's work. It is intended not only as background reading for Díaz's lecture, but also as an introduction for those new to his work, as well as a pointers to other scholarly and popular resources for those who want to dive deeper into that work and its significance in contemporary literary culture.
![This detail from an Andy Warhol contact sheet is among an archive of 3,600 contact sheets and 130,000 images available through Stanford Libraries. Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Photo shoot with Andy Warhol with shadow], 1986. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.2893. (Image credit: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)](http://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/375x150/public/02-2014.43.2893_warhol_with_shadow.jpg?itok=D7lohyGt "This detail from an Andy Warhol contact sheet is among an archive of 3,600 contact sheets and 130,000 images available through Stanford Libraries. Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Photo shoot with Andy Warhol with shadow], 1986. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.2893. (Image credit: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)")