Born: 1967, South DakotaLives: San Francisco, California
Adam Johnson was born in South Dakota. He took a BA in journalism at Arizona State University, an MFA at McNeese State University and a PhD in English at Florida State University.
He is a professor of creative writing at Stanford University, where he founded the Stanford Graphic Novel Project, and lives in San Francisco. His story collection Fortune Smiles won the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction.