Adam johnson author biography essay
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Adam Johnson (writer)
American novelist and short story writer (born 1967)
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Adam johnson author biography essay
He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing.[1]
Early life
Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.[2] He was raised in Tempe, Arizona and attended Marcos de Niza High School.
Education
Johnson earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer Ron Carlson. He earned an MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood.
In 2001, he earned a PhD in English from Florida State University. Janet Burroway directed his d