Adam Mansbach | |
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Born | July 1, 1976 |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University |
Notable works | Go the Fuck to Sleep |
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).
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]