Adam Langer
Born1967 (age 55–56)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • playwright
  • journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVassar College
SubjectFiction
Notable worksCrossing California
SpouseBeate Sissenich
Website
www.adamlanger.com

Adam Langer (born 1967) is an American author best known for his novel Crossing California, which was published in 2004.

Biography

Langer grew up in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, where he attended Daniel Boone Elementary School. He attended Evanston Township High School from 1980 to 1984 and graduated from Vassar College in 1988. Returning to Chicago, he worked for a little over a decade as an editor, nonfiction author, playwright, theater director, and film producer. In 2000, he won a fellowship to Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program and remained in New York as a senior editor of Book Magazine until it folded in 2003. He had a weekly column in The Book Standard.

In August 2012, he was named Arts Editor of The Jewish Daily Forward.[1]

Works

Novels

  • Crossing California (2004)
  • The Washington Story (2005)
  • Ellington Boulevard (2008)
  • My Father's Bonus March (2009)
  • The Thieves of Manhattan (2010)
  • The Salinger Contract (2013)
  • Cyclorama (2022)

References

  1. ↑ "Staff Bios –". Forward.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
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