Adam Ehrlich Sachs
American writer
Adam Ehrlich Sachs (born 1986) is an American writer. He has published three books: Inherited Disorders (2016), The Organs of Sense (2019), and Gretel and the Great War (2024). In 2018, he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and in 2026 he received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.
Early life and education
Sachs was born in Boston and attended Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. He has a bachelor's degree in atmospheric science and a master's in the history of science.
Career
Sachs's work has been published in The New Yorker, n+1, and Harper’s.
As of 2026, Sachs has published three books. His first book, Inherited Disorders, was published with Regan Arts in 2016. It is a collection of stories about sons and their fathers. It was a finalist for the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
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