Adam Mansbach

Screenwriter

Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Go the Fuck to Sleep, which has sold over two million copies worldwide, and the 2014 sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat. His novels include Rage is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award. Mansbach's work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio’s This American Life, The Moth, and All Things Considered. His debut screenplay, for the 2016 film BARRY, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award, and his upcoming projects include adapting the book How Not to Get Shot (And Other Advice from White People) by DL Hughley for Comedy Central, co-writing a television show with the comedian W. Kamau Bell, and a feature film, THE HANDLER, to be produced by Thunder Road in late 2019.