Author
Charles Richard Johnson
1 award win, 1 nomination across 1 book.
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist, at which time he was also involved in radical politics. In 1970, he published a collection of cartoons, and this led to a television series about cartooning on PBS.-GoodReads
Middle Passage
1 Award Won1 Nomination
209 pages
A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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