Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson talks with University of Nevada, Reno history professor Hugh Shapiro about Johnson’s latest projects. Adam Johnson is the author of The Wayfinder, Fortune Smiles, The Orphan Master’s Son, Emporium, and Parasites Like Us. Johnson will be available for a book signing following the event.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and registration is required.
This event is supported by the University of Nevada, Reno College of Liberal Arts through the Hilliard Endowment.
Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award. His previous books include the short story collection Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
Hugh Shapiro is associate professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on modern China and on the history of disease in comparative perspective, and his recent work appears in volumes published by Harvard University Press, De Gruyter Brill, and Oxford University Press. Shapiro received the Li-Qing Prize for the History of Chinese Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
This program is presented by the University of Nevada, Reno Department of History and Nevada Humanities with support from:
University of Nevada, Reno College of Liberal Arts support through the Hilliard Endowment
Nevada Humanities
Department of History
Department of Anthropology
Department of English
Department of Political Science
John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
National Endowment for the Humanities
Marilyn Melton Endowment for the Humanities
Federation of State Humanities Councils