Adam Johnson (Author)

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Adam Johnson (2006)

Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967 in South Dakota ) is an American writer .

Life

Adam Johnson was born in South Dakota in 1967 and grew up in Arizona . He graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1992, and then earned a Master of Fine Arts as part of a writing degree at McNeese State University , Louisiana. In 2000 he received his PhD from Florida State University . Johnson currently lives and works in San Francisco as a writer and teaches creative writing at Stanford University . He is the founder of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. The Playboy Magazine named him one of the most influential and resourceful college professors in the nation.

2012 his novel in the US The Orphan Master's Son ( German  The stolen life of orphans in June Thu ), who within a few days after the release already on the bestseller list of the New York Times was.

Before The Robbed Life of the Orphan Jun Do , he published a collection of short stories under the title Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us , which won the 2003 California Book Award. To date, Johnson has published in Harper's Magazine, Tin House and The Paris Review , as well as in the anthologies Best New American Voices and The Best American Short Stories.

Awards

Johnson has received various awards and grants. In 2002 he was named Debut Author of the Year by Amazon.com, and in 2003 he was selected for the Discover Great New Writers book series published by Barnes & Noble . He won the Gina Berriault Litery Award . In April 2013 Johnson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best novel for his North Korea novel The Orphan Master's Son ( German The robbed life of the orphan Jun Do ) . In 2013 he received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the same novel . In 2015 he was awarded the National Book Award for Fortune Smiles .  

Publications

Books

Publications in newspapers

  • Hurricanes Anonymous in Tin House
  • The Denti-Vision Satellite in Ninth Letter
  • Cliff Gods of Acapulco in Esquire, October 29, 2009
  • The History of Cancer in Hayden's Ferry Review
  • Watertables in The Missouri Review, No. 3/1995
  • The Canadanaut in The Paris Review
  • Your Own Backyard in The Southeast Review
  • The Death-Dealing Cassini Satellite in New England Review
  • Teen Sniper in Harper's Magazine, March / 2002
  • Trauma Plate in The Virginia Quarterly Review

literature

  • Britta Heidemann: Hello earth, is there anyone? Adam Johnson has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His short stories tell of total isolation. In: The literary world , January 2, 2016, p. 5. Online version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=67
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2012-02-19/hardcover-fiction/list.html
  3. ↑ http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142004777,00.html?Parasites_Like_Us_Adam_Johnson
  4. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/98888/adam-johnson?sort=best_13wk_3month
  5. ↑ Pulitzer Prizes for North Korea Novel and "New York Times". April 16, 2013, accessed April 16, 2013 .
  6. ↑ http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/fiction-Gods-Acapulco-0499
  7. ↑ Watertables ( Memento from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ http://harpers.org/archive/2002/03/teen-sniper/
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH South Dakota