Adam Mansbach

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.

Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep, parodying bedtime stories. Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, and The End of the Jews (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008). Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary.

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.

He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".