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Johnson, Charles (Richard)
Johnson, Charles [Richard] (1948–), African‐American novelist, cartoonist, television script writer, born in Evanston, Ill. Johnson is a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. His novel Faith and the Good Thing (1974) concerns the adventures of Faith Cross, a Southern black girl going to Chicago in quest of life's “Good Thing.” Another novel, Oxherding Tale (1982), explores the coming of age of Andrew Hawkins, a slave conceived of a black father and white mother in the pre–Civil War South. One of Andrew's achievements is eluding a bounty hunter with telepathic powers called Soulcatcher. Johnson's novel Middle Passage (1990), a parable of the black experience in America, won the National Book Award. The civil rights movement is at the center of the novel Dreamer (1998). The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1986) collects short stories; Turning the Wheel (2003) collects essays on Buddhism and writing.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Johnson, Charles (Richard)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Johnson, Charles (Richard)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-JohnsonCharlesRichard.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Johnson, Charles (Richard)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-JohnsonCharlesRichard.html |
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