Charles R. Johnson
Novelist, Author
1948 –
Who is Charles R. Johnson?
Charles Richard 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, and many other prizes such as a 2002 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his most recent award is The Humanities Washington Award 2013 for creating and contributing for 15 years a new, original short story to a literary event called “Bedtime Stories,” which since 1998 has raised a million dollars for the literacy programs of the non-profit organization Humanities Washington.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1948
Evanston - Also known as
- Charles Johnson
- Charles Richard Johnson
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Bachelor of Science
- PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Philosophy
( - 1988) - Phenomenology
- Lived in
- Evanston
- Seattle
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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