Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2004).

Price: $200.00

Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Jay McWilliams. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Johnson to author Nicholas Delbanco.

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ISBN: 0295984384

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Item #278547 Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson. Charles JOHNSON.

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

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Biography

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