Adam Mansbach
American author (born 1976)
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Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author. He has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009–2011).
Adam Mansbach | |
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Mansbach at the 2013 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | July 1, 1976 Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Notable works | Go the Fuck to Sleep |
| Children | 2 |
Biography
Mansbach graduated from Columbia College in 1998 and received a MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2000.[1]
Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep, parodying bedtime stories.[2] Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005,[3] and The End of the Jews[4] (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).[5][6] Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary.[3]
His book Stay the Fuck at Home (2020), was written to support awareness of coronavirus self-isolation measures; it has yet to be formally published. The book was read on Jimmy Kimmel Live by actor Samuel L. Jackson.[7][8]
He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".[9][10]
Bibliography
Novels
- Shackling Water (2003)
- Angry Black White Boy, Three Rivers Press/Random House (2005)
- The End of the Jews (2009)
- Rage is Back, Viking/Penguin (2013)
- The Dead Run, William Morrow/HarperCollins (2013)[11][12][13][14][15]
- The Golem of Brooklyn (2023)
Poetry
- genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights (2001)
- I Had a Brother Once (2021)
Humor
- Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
- Seriously, Just Go To Sleep (2012)
- You Have to Fucking Eat (2014) ISBN 978-1617753787
- Seriously, You Have to Eat (2015)
- Fuck, Now There Are Two of You (2019)
- A Field Guide to the Jewish People, with Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry (2019)
Anthology contributions
- All The Words Past The Margins, in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic. Edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai (Basic Civitas Books, 2010)[3]
Screenplay
- Barry (2016)
Graphic novel
- Nature Of The Beast: A Graphic Novel Written with Douglas Mcgowan; illustrated by Owen Brozman (2012)[16]
