Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns (born 19 October 1965) is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001, and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. He was awarded a

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2012. Johns is best known for his works on the history of information, particularly ''The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making'' and ''Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.'' Johns met

Alison Winter Alison Winter (19 November 1965 – 22 June 2016) was an American academic. Biography Born on 19 November 1965 in New Haven, Connecticut, Winter spent her early childhood in Bonn, Germany, and attended high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her ...

at Cambridge in 1987, and the two married in 1992. She died in 2016.

Selected Bibliography

* Johns, Adrian. ''The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. . * Johns, Adrian. ''Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age''. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. . * Johns, Adrian. ''Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. . * Johns, Adrian. ''The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Johns, Adrian 1965 births Living people British expatriate academics in the United States Alumni of the University of Cambridge