Adam Johnson Profile

Adam Johnson, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, holds the Draper Distinguished Lectureship at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, and The Paris Review. Adam Johnson's much acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Emporium, was published by Viking in Spring 2002 and was nominated for a Young Lions Award and was named “Debut Book of the Year” by Amazon. His novel, Parasites Like Us, was published by Viking in the fall of 2003 and received the California Book Award. The paperback is now available from Penguin.

Adam Johnson and his wife were married five times: in Stuart, Florida; Scottsdale, Arizona; Tallahassee, Florida; Pacifica, California; and Las Vegas. They live in San Francisco with their daughters Jupiter and Justice Everlasting, and their son James Geronimo.