Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, Wonderland, How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You.
He’s the host of the podcast American Innovations, and the host and co-creator of the PBS and BBC series How We Got to Now.
Johnson lives in Marin County, California, and Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three sons.
Books in order of publication:
Interface Culture: How the Digital Medium–from Windows to the Web–Changes the way We Write, Speak – 1997
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life – 1999
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software – 2001
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter – 2005
The Invention of Air – 2008
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World – 2006
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – 2010
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age – 2012
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World – 2014
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World – 2016
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most – 2018
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt – 2020
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer – 2021
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective – 2024
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