Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles , winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master's Son , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award. Johnson's other awards include a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young...See more

Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles , winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master's Son , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award. Johnson's other awards include a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His previous books are Emporium , a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us . Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University. See less