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Charles R. Johnson

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Born
in Evanston, Illinois, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

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Buddhism

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Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist, at which time he was also involved in radical politics. In 1970, he published a collection of cartoons, and this led to a television series about cartooning on PBS.

1990 National Book Award Winner.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 14,080 ratings · 1,548 reviews · 87 distinct works • Similar authors
Middle Passage
3.85 avg rating — 5,597 ratings — published 1990 — 46 editions
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The Way of the Writer: Refl...
3.79 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions
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Oxherding Tale
3.95 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1982 — 24 editions
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Dreamer
3.70 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions
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Africans in America: Americ...
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4.47 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Night Hawks: Stories
3.60 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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Dr. King's Refrigerator: An...
3.49 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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Grand: A Grandparent's Wisd...
3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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Soulcatcher and Other Stories
3.94 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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“The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.”
― Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
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“We worked in silence. One thing I liked about the cook was that he knew when to shut up even when he was mubblefubbled and dying to talk. Occasionally, I felt his eyes, like fishhooks, try to catch mine as we squeezed past one another in the narrow galley, but he kept his thoughts untongued. Personally, I was too pitchkettled to trust my own speech.”
― Charles R. Johnson, Middle Passage
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“Furthermore, plot, as JG wisely put it, is the storyteller's equivalent to the philosopher's argument; its importance lies in it being an interpretation (one based on causation) of why the world works the way it does.”
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