Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach at the 2013 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1976-07-01) July 1, 1976
Occupation Author
Nationality American
Notable works Go the Fuck to Sleep

Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author, and has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009-2011).

Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep.[1] Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005,[2] and The End of the Jews[3] (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).[4][5] Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary.[2]

He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".[6][7]

Bibliography

Novels

Poetry

  • genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights (2001)

Humor

  • Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
  • Seriously, Just Go To Sleep (2012)
  • You Have to Fucking Eat (2014) ISBN 978-1617753787

Anthology contributions

Screenplay

Graphic Novel

  • Nature Of The Beast: A Graphic Novel Written with Douglas Mcgowan; illustrated by Owen Brozman (2012)[13]

References

  1. ↑ Harmanci, Reyhan (12 May 2011). "'Go the F--- to Sleep': The Case of the Viral PDF". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Dyson, Michael Eric; Daulatzai, Sohail (2010). Born to Use Mics. Basic Civitas Books. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-465-00211-5. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ Mansbach, Adam (2008). The end of the Jews : a novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 0-385-52044-1.
  4. ↑ Harmanci, Reyhan (28 April 2011). "A Whim, A Book, And, Wow!". New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "The California Book Award Winners 1931-2006" (PDF). Commonwealth Club of California. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  6. ↑ "Adam Mansbach's biography page". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Father Figures KPFA Berkeley". Archived from the original on 2012-05-17. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach". Seattle PI. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "THE DEAD RUN (review)". Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach". FearNet. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  11. ↑ "Review: The Dead Run". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  12. ↑ "Review: Dead Run". Booklist. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "Nature of the Beast". Soft Skull Press. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2017-04-08.


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