Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is the author of the just-published novel The Wayfinder, garnering rave reviews and comparisons to the greatest epic stories of all time. Winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His stories have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and have been recognized with the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has been translated into more than three-dozen languages. He was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. His teaching interests include the development of the novel, indigeneity, the oral tradition, counter narrative, trauma theory, and speculative fiction.