Grad wins Pulitzer for fiction
For his story of a North Korean man with a rough past, Arizona State University alumnus Adam Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, The Orphan Master's Son. The Pulitzer winner discovered his passion for writing as an undergraduate student at ASU. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1992, but his career path took a turn when he enrolled in a writing class in the English department.
"As a young man, I was often told that I was a daydreamer, a rubbernecker, an exaggerator. But in a fiction class, all the things I had been criticized about came together to create something meaningful. That was a very powerful feeling for me." – ASU alumnus Adam Johnson, ’92, BA
