Junot Diaz drew on his life and the Dominican American experience generally in authoring "Drown" and "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", the latter of which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 and made him the first Dominican American and the second Hispanic or Latino American in history to win the Pulitzer Prize. Julia Alvarez is the nationally recognized author of "In the Time of the Butterflies," a fictional book based on the lives of the "Mirabal sisters," and "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents". Nelly Rosario, born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City, also won critical acclaim for her debut novel "Song of the Water Saints".