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Josephine Winslow Johnson

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Josephine Winslow Johnson


Born
in Kirkwood, Missouri, The United States
June 20, 1910

Died
February 27, 1990

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American novelist, poet, and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November. Shortly thereafter, she published Winter Orchard, a collection of short stories that had previously appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The St. Louis Review, and Hound & Horn. Of these stories, "Dark" won an O. Henry Award in 1934[1], and "John the Six" won an O. Henry Award third prize the following year. Johnson continued writing short stories and won three more O. Henry Awards: for "Alexander to the Park" (1942), "The Glass Pigeon" (1943), and "Night Flight" (1944).

Johnson was bornin Kirkwood, Missouri. She attended Washington University from 1926 to 1931, but did not earn a degree. She wrote her fir
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Now in November

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The Inland Island

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Il viaggiatore oscuro

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Seven Houses: A Memoir of T...

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Jordanstown

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Wildwood

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Winter Orchard and Other St...

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“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”
Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?”
Josephine W. Johnson, Now in November

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October 2022 New School Classic Group Read

 
  86 votes, 37.1%

 
  35 votes, 15.1%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages
 
  31 votes, 13.4%

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996, 419 pages
 
  29 votes, 12.5%

 
  20 votes, 8.6%

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 1938, 309 pages
 
  18 votes, 7.8%

 
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