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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.
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
2024
The Astonishing Story of How We Doubled Our Lifespan
2023
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
2020
A Short History of Living Longer
2019
2018
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
2018
How Play Made the Modern World
2016
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
2014
The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
2012
Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
2011
The Natural History of Innovation
2010
2009
2008
The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2006
2005
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
2001
Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
1999
How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate
1997
