Adam Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards—for The Orphan Master’s Son, his surreal portrait of North Korea. His book of short stories, Fortune Smiles, won The National Book Award for Fiction in 2015.

Johnson is currently a professor in creative writing at Stanford University. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his work has also received a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. His fiction has also appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Tin House and The Best American Short Stories, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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