Adam Langer
Adam Langer is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and playwright born in Chicago on January 1, 1967.
Langer attended Evanston Township High School before continuing his education at the University of Illinois Chicago and Vassar College. Those years of formal study shaped the foundation from which he would go on to work across several distinct disciplines, composing throughout in English.
His novel Crossing California stands as a notable work in his body of fiction. Beyond that novel, Langer has also worked as a journalist and editor, and has written for the stage as a playwright. The combination of roles — novelist, journalist, editor, playwright — marks a career that has not been confined to a single form. Each of these professional identities has been active parts of how he engages with writing, and together they constitute the scope of his output as an American author.
Crossing California remains the work most closely associated with his name, the novel that defines his presence in American fiction. For a writer who has operated across prose, drama, and journalism, it is that book which continues to anchor his identity as a novelist.
Quotes by Adam Langer
I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?
Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.
He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals...
That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the same relationship to that author as we do. I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.
