Adam Johnson
1967
Adam Johnson is one of the Pulitzer Prize winning author from America who has written many successful short stories and fiction novels is his writing career. He is particularly famous for writing down the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, for which he has won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2012. Apart from being a novelist, Johnson also works as a lecturer of English at the Stanford University and focuses mainly on creative writing. He was born on July 12, 1967 in South Dakota and was brought up in Arizona. Before going on to explore his writing abilities, Johnson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Arizona University in Journalism in the year 1992. Later, he obtained his MFA from the McNeese University in a writing program in the year 1996 and a PhD from the Florida Univesity in the year 2000 in the English subject. Currently is based in San Francisco as a well established author and an associate professor of creative writing at the Stanford University. Johnson is also popular for laying the foundation of the Graphic Novel Project at the Stanford University. For his tremendous contribution towards novel writing and teaching creative writing to the aspiring authors, the Playboy Magazine has labelled him as one of the most imaginative and influential college professors of the nation.