Johnny Diaz
Johnny Diaz is an American novelist and a journalist for The New York Times. 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.

Early life and education
Diaz was born in Miami, Florida, and attended Florida International University.

Career
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." 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, Miami Manhunt, Beantown Cubans, and Take the Lead. The television and film rights to Diaz' first three novels have been optioned by Open Road Integrated Media.

Personal life
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 The Real World: Miami and Diaz appeared in several episodes.

Novels 
Boston Boys Club (2007)
Miami Manhunt (2008)
Beantown Cubans (2009)
Take the Lead (2011)
Looking for Providence (2014)

References

External links 
Johnny Diaz's Blog

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American romantic fiction writers
21st-century American novelists
Writers from Miami
The Boston Globe people
American gay writers
American LGBT journalists
American LGBT novelists
LGBT people from Florida
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Florida
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers