Middle Passage
New York: Atheneum, 1990.
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Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Some offsetting at the top of the front wrap, thus very good in wrappers. Marketed at first as a book for "young adults," the pre-publication state of this National Book Award winner is scarce. Signed by the author.
Item #350642
Charles Johnson
birth name: Charles Richard Johnson
born: 4/23/1948
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