Adam Langer
{{short description|American author (born 1967)}}
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| name = Adam Langer
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Novelist
- short story writer
- playwright
- journalist
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| alma_mater = Vassar College
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| subject = Fiction
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| notableworks = Crossing California
| website = {{URL|http://www.adamlanger.com}}
|spouse=Beate Sissenich
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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.{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/about/masthead/staff/#alanger |title=Staff Bios – |publisher=Forward.com |date= |accessdate=2012-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412002908/http://forward.com/about/masthead/staff/#alanger |archive-date=2015-04-12 |url-status=dead }}
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
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External links
- [http://www.adamlanger.com/ Adam Langer's home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828184515/http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/langer_a/adam_langer.htm Adam Langer Biography at Literary Agency]
- [http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/archivalcoll/langer.php Adam Langer Collection, 1984-2011 - Chicago Public Library]
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Jewish American novelists
Category:Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Vassar College alumni
Category:American male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American male writers