Black Humor
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1970.
Price: $50.00
Softcover. First edition. Perfect bound wrapper. Near fine with some rubbing. Signed by the author on the back panel. Second book by the author of *The Middle Passage*, a book of cartoons.
Item #58584
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