Adam Langer

Adam Langer
Born	1967 (age 56–57) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist
Nationality	American
Subject	Fiction
Notable works	Crossing California
Spouse	Beate 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 1980–1984 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.

He is married to Beate Sissenich, a political scientist and visiting scholar at NYU.

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)

As contributor

• The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2000 (2000)
• The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2000 (2000)
• The Encyclopedia of Exes (2005)
• Chicago Noir (2005)
• Before: The Big Book of Pregnancy and Parenting (2006)

Plays

• What I Need Is A Good Bonk On The Head (1989)
• Backstage Pass (1990)
• In The Shadow of A Smile (1991)
• Under The Gods (1992)
• The Blank Page (1995)
• Dark Matter (1996)
• Crime in The City (1997)
• Solo Album, Volume#1: Rock ‘n’ Roll Women (1997)
• Film Flam (1997)
• Three Glasses of Sherry (1998)
• The Critics (1999)
• Coaster (2000)
• What Remains Forgotten (2001)
• 214 Minutes (2002)
• Suramo (2002)

Other

• The Madness of Art (1996)

External links

• Adam Langer's home page
• Adam Langer Biography at Literary Agency
• Adam Langer Collection, 1984-2011 - Chicago Public Library