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Dr. Charles Johnson, a 1998 MacArthur fellow, is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. His fiction includes Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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Turning the Wheel
Turning the Wheel Essays on Buddhism and Writing By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2007
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of...
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Oxherding Tale A Novel By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2005
One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an...
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Dr. King's Refrigerator And Other Bedtime Stories By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2005
Winner of the National Book Award "A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick…heroic in proportion… fiction that hooks into the mind." — The New York Times Book Review "Long after we'd...
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Faith And The Good Thing A Novel By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: January 10, 2001
Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism...
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Dreamer A Novel About Martin Luther King, Jr. By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: February 2, 1999
Winner of the National Book Award "A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick…heroic in proportion… fiction that hooks into the mind." — The New York Times Book Review "Long after we'd...
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Middle Passage By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: July 1, 1998
Winner of the National Book Award “A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick…heroic in proportion… fiction that hooks into the mind.” — The New York Times Book Review “Long...
Other Formats: eBook