Charles R. Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher and cartoonist, born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. His novel Middle Passage, the story of a freed slave who stows away on a slave ship, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1990; his other books include Oxherding Tale, Dreamer and many works on Buddhism and the art of writing. A MacArthur Fellow, he taught for many years at the University of Washington.
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Charles R. Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher and cartoonist, born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. His novel Middle Passage, the story of a freed slave who stows away on a slave ship, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1990; his other books include Oxherding Tale, Dreamer and many works on Buddhism and the art of writing. A MacArthur Fellow, he taught for many years at the University of Washington.