Charles R. Johnson
American fiction writer, essayist, and academic · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1948 · age 78
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.
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1998MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1990National Book Award for FictionAward1987Guggenheim FellowshipAward1948Born23 April 1948
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Johnson was born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois, and spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Born 1948 · age 78
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