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Allen Johnson Jr.

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Born

in Mountain Brook, Alabama, The United States

Website

http://blackwaternovels.com

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Genre

Children's, Young Adult

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September 2013

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I live on Mercer Island, Washington, near Seattle, with my wife, Jill, my filmmaker son, Ben, who is now a weekend visitor, and three dogs, Sunshine, Piccolo and Chloe.

At the age of seventy-seven, I now pursue my two passions, writing and jazz guitar.

I was born and raised outside of Birmingham, Alabama. (You can take a Southerner out of the South but you can’t take the South out of a Southerner!)

As a boy I had the good fortune of growing up with the space and freedom to be outside, have adventures, explore and get into trouble. A boy’s purpose in life is to play, and the tantalizing possibility of getting into trouble added spice to that purpose.

I was also blessed with a rich heritage of story telling from the members of my wonderful, exten ...more

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My grandfather loved to eat and ate like a European, piling up savory combinations of Southern cooking on the back of his fork which he kept in his left hand. My grandparents had a cook named Maggie Maccadory, a birdlike, tiny black woman who couldn’t have weighed a hundred pounds. Maggie was an artist who up until
about 1940 still cooked on a wood stove. In the tradition of most Southern cooks, mo Read more of this blog post »

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	My Brother's Story (Blackwater Novels) 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead House (Blackwater Novels) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Breeze in the Willows really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oliver and the Ghosts of Bodie by Christiane Cassan Wiese, Allen Johnson Jr. (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Christmas Tree Express: A Novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picker McClikker really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picker McClicker Fun Book by Allen Johnson Jr. (Goodreads Author), L. Mayhew Gore (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Nest of Snakes (Blackwater Novels) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Box of Trinkets 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Brother's Story (The Blackwater Novels) by Allen Johnson Jr. (Goodreads Author), Kelley McMorris (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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