Novelist and short-story writer Manuel Muñoz, M.F.A. '98, has been awarded a $800,000 "genius grant" from the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellowships are bestowed with no conditions for how the money is to be used. Awarded annually, they honor people from a wide variety of fields who have demonstrated exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits. Manuel Muñoz In his writing, Muñoz draws on his roots growing up in a Mexican-American family of farmworkers in California's Central Valley to explore the impacts of racial politics and limited economic opportunities in this region.

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