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Adam Johnson

Biography

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named one of the best books of the year by more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly. Johnson’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ 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 Award. His previous books are EMPORIUM, a short story collection, and the novel PARASITES LIKE US. Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.

Adam Johnson

Books by Adam Johnson

by Adam Johnson - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty and love.