The Middle Passage

New York: Atheneum, 1990.

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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Warmly Inscribed by Johnson to a fellow author and former colleague at Bennington Collage: "For Nick Delbanco, with profound admiration & lifelong friendship. Charles Johnson. 1/28/92." Laid in is an Autograph Postcard Signed from Johnson to Delbanco, as well as Delbanco's printed introductory notes for a reading given by Johnson. An exceptional novel, a *tour de force* about a freed slave who, to his horror, stows away on a slave ship headed for Africa. National Book Award winner. A wonderful association copy.

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ISBN: 0689119682

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Item #278546 The Middle Passage. Charles JOHNSON.
The Middle Passage

Charles Johnson
birth name: Charles Richard Johnson
born: 4/23/1948

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African-American novelist, known for his National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage. He was at the center of a literary firestorm in 1995 when some felt he criticized Alice Walker's The Color Purple for its negative portrayal of black men. Johnson began his career as a political cartoonist, and he is not to be confused with the Harlem Renaissance anthologist and scholar Charles S. Johnson.more