The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson (Paperback / softback, 2015)

Dzanc Books

1936873648

9781936873647

208864061

Charles Johnson

Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound

English

Biography: Literary

Charles Johnson is a black American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage. Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990] making him the second black American male writer to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. Johnson s acceptance speech was a tribute to Ellison. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship or Genius Grant in 1998. He is also the recipient of National Endowment For The Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships.

10/02/2015

United States