| Johnny Diaz | |
| Birth Place: | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Journalist, author |
| Nationality: | American |
| Period: | 2000 - present |
Johnny Diaz is an American novelist and a journalist for The New York Times.[1] He previously worked for the Sun Sentinel, where he wrote local feature stories about South Florida, and as a media reporter for the business section of The Boston Globe.
Diaz was born in Miami, Florida, and attended Florida International University.
He was a general assignment Metro reporter for the Miami Herald, where he worked on the staff that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage "for its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father."[2] He also covered some of the biggest breaking stories in South Florida, including the murder of Gianni Versace.
Diaz worked for three years as a features writer for the Living/Arts section of The Boston Globe before moving to the newspaper's business section.
He was a featured contributor to the first Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul.
Diaz is the author of several gay-themed novels: Boston Boys Club,[3] Miami Manhunt,[4] Beantown Cubans,[5] and Take the Lead. The television and film rights to Diaz' first three novels have been optioned by Open Road Integrated Media.[6]
Diaz also works as a part-time journalism instructor at Emerson College in Boston. He is gay and his homosexuality became widely known in 1996 when his boyfriend was a cast member on the television series and Diaz appeared in several episodes.[7]