Hernan Diaz

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of two celebrated works of fiction. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 books of the year, and one of Literary Hub’s twenty best novels of the decade. It was originally released by Minneapolis publisher, Coffee House Press.

The author’s latest release—and winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—is Trust, an unparalleled story of money, power, intimacy, and perception. Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? Diaz raises this question among others in this expansive, genre-bending story about the roaring ‘20s and the Great Depression. Trust was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine. 
    
Diaz holds a PhD from NYU, edits an academic journal at Columbia University, and is also the author of a work of literary criticism: Borges, between History and Eternity. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere.