Adam Langer

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 . 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 .

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)

References[]

External links[]

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