Johnson is currently a San Francisco writer and professor in creative writing at Stanford University. Janet Burroway directed his dissertation. In 2001, he earned a PhD in English from Florida State University. He earned an MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood. Johnson earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer Ron Carlson. His grandmother was a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Johnson was born in South Dakota and was raised in Tempe, Arizona. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles. Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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