# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-r-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:56:06.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-r-johnson"
name: "Charles R. Johnson"
slug: "charles-r-johnson"
description: "Charles Richard Johnson is an 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. Johnson was born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois, and spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle."
tagline: "American fiction writer, essayist, and academic (born 1948)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump