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The MFA Reading Series presents acclaimed novelist Adam Johnson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times bestselling novel, “The Orphan Master’s Son.” Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Lauren Groff said of Johnson: “As a writer, he is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader.”
Johnson will give a reading at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, November 5 in The Hemingway Center. Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings renowned writers to the Boise State campus each year.
A Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University, Adam Johnson authored several books, including “Fortune Smiles,” which won the National Book Award. His New York Times bestselling novel, “The Orphan Master’s Son” received the Pulitzer Prize. Of the novel, the critic Michiko Kakutani wrote, “Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.” Johnson’s honors include a Whiting Award, the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin. 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. Born in South Dakota, Johnson is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. His teaching and research interests include the development of the novel, indigeneity, the oral tradition, counter narrative, trauma theory and speculative fiction.
