Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns (born 19 October 1965) is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

in 1992. He joined the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

faculty in 2001, and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship 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 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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