Ian Johnson (writer)

Ian Johnson is a Berlin-based writer and journalist, working primarily in China and Germany.

A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of China's suppression of the Falun Gong movement. (For the winning articles, please see http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/international-reporting/works/index3.html) His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2004, Johnson published "Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China" (Pantheon), which was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages. (For an excerpt from the book and interview with Johnson, please see http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375421860&view=qa)

Born in Montreal, Canada, Johnson is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He lives in Berlin, Germany and has recently published a Wall Street Journal review of "Advocate for the Doomed" about James G. McDonald's efforts to warn the world about the Nazis in the early 1930's. He is currently on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University, working on a book about Islamic radicalism in Europe. It should be noted he attended the University of Florida. [1]