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Adam Johnson is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco. Adam Johnson was born on July 12, 1967 in South Dakota. He received a BA in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, a MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, and a PhD in English from Florida State University in 2000. He is a writer and associate professor in creative writing at Stanford University. He founded the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. He is the author of several books including Emporium and Parasites Like Us. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 for The Orphan Master's Son and National Book Award for Fiction in 2015 for Fortune Smiles: Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Orphan Master's Son… (more)
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Contributor) 351 copies, 10 reviews
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Contributor) 252 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (Contributor) 158 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (Contributor) 142 copies, 7 reviews
Granta 127: Japan (Contributor) 120 copies, 2 reviews
Best New American Voices 2000 (Contributor) 46 copies
Stumbling and Raging (Contributor) 22 copies
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Johnson, Adam
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1967-07-12
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USA
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South Dakota, USA
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Arizona State University (BA, 1992)
McNeese State University (MA, MFA, 1996)
Florida State University (PhD, 2001)
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Harrell, Stephanie (wife)
Johnson, James Geronimo (son)
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Stanford University
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Wallace Stegner Fellowship (2001)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2010)
Gina Berriault Literary Award (San Francisco State University ∙ 2010)
Whiting Writers' Award (2009)
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction, 2013)
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