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Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. Winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His stories have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and have been recognized with the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has been translated into more than three-dozen languages. He was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. His teaching and research interests include the development of the novel, indigeneity, the oral tradition, counter narrative, trauma theory and speculative fiction.
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Adam Johnson Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
In a video Q&A, Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son explains his fascination with propaganda and its relationship to narrative voice. In a separate interview he talks about Fortune Smiles
A Conversation Between Adam Johnson and Vincent Scarpa about Fortune Smiles and Other Topics
Vincent Scarpa is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas and managing editor of The Austin Review.
Vincent Scarpa: How long have these stories been in your arsenal? Were they all completed after The Orphan Master's Son, or were some in the works before that?
Adam Johnson: That's a good question. One story, "Hurricanes Anonymous," I wrote earlier. In the middle of Orphan Master's Son, I knew that I needed to use a certain kind of third person with a certain kind of distance that I'd never really deployed before, and so I stopped writing that book and I figured, Let me test it out. So I wrote that story, "Hurricanes Anonymous," that was really ratcheted down
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Adam Johnson is the Phil and Penny Knight Professor in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He earned his PhD in English from Florida State University, MA and MFA from McNeese State University, and BA in journalism from Arizona State University.
Johnson is the 2016 winner of the Story Prize, 2015 recipient of the National Book Award in fiction, for his short-story collection Fortune Smiles (Random House, 2015), and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House, 2012). He is also the author of the short-story collection Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us (Viking, 2003). His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to receiving numerous additional literary awards, Johnson was a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a 2013-14 Guggenheim Fellow. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Harper’s, Playboy, GQ, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, and Best American Short Stories.