Background
Johnson, Charles Richard was born on April 23, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Benjamin Lee and Ruby Elizabeth (Jackson) Johnson.
(Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black ...)
Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.
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(One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his ...)
One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring -- Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes Oxherding Tale. Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, Oxherding Tale is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit; and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity.
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Johnson, Charles Richard was born on April 23, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Benjamin Lee and Ruby Elizabeth (Jackson) Johnson.
Bachelor, Southern Illinois University, 1971. Master of Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1973. Postgraduate, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy. Doctor of Arts (honorary), Northwestern University, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Southern Illinois University, 1995.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1999.
Cartoonist, reporter Chicago Tribune, 1969-1970. Member art staff St. Louis Proud, 1971-1972. Assistant professor University Washington, Seattle, 1976-1979, associate professor, 1979-1982, professor of English, since 1982, director Creative Writing Department, S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professor.
Writer-in-residence Seattle Post Intelligencer, since 2007. Fiction editor Seattle Review, 1978-1998. Director Associate Writing Programs Awards series in short fiction, 1979-1981, board directors, since 1983.
(One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his ...)
(Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black ...)
(Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black ...)
(Essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Da...)
(Black Humor is a collection of cartoons originally publis...)
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Married Joan New, June 1970. Children: Malik, Elizabeth.