Description
Book SynopsisContains extracts from Johnson's several interviews, giving an account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. This title brings up many elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism and the importance of family to him.
Trade Review"Essential material for the reader interested in Johnson's life and work, and also interested more broadly in contemporary American literature. Johnson's standing as public intellectual, and as a force to be reckoned with in all cultural debates in America, is well recognized; but this book expresses his thought with a coherence and complexity that heretofore has not been available."
* African American Review *
Table of ContentsForeword / Charles Johnson
Preface / Jim McWilliams
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Charles Johnson's Life
Reflections on Film, Philosophy, and Fiction: An Interview with Charles Johnson (1978) / Ken McCullough
Charles Johnson (1987) / Nicholas O'Connell
Being and Race: An Interview with Charles Johnson (1988) / George Myers, Jr.
Author Navigates Uncharted Waters: Middle Passage Takes Readers on a Spirited Journey (1990) / M. L. Lyke
Winner of National Book Award Won't Be a "Voice of Black America" (1991) / Peter Monaghan
The Philosopher and the American Novel (1991) / Q & A at the California State Library
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1991) / Cyra McFadden
An Interview with Charles Johnson (1992) / Phoebe Bosche
A Life in Balance Through Martial Arts (1992) / Tim Allen
An Interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Jonathan Little
An Interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Marian Blue
Charles Johnson: Interview (1993) / Linda Davies
Interviews with Northwest Writers: Charles Johnson (1993) / Irene Wanner
An Interview with Charles Johnson (1996) / Michael Boccia
A Man of His Word (1998) / Beth Grubb
A Conversation with Charles Johnson (1998) / William R. Nash
The Human Dimension: An Interview with Writer-Philosopher Charles Johnson (1999) / Charles Mudede
An Interview with Charles Johnson (2002) / Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais
An Interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / Jim McWilliams
Shoulder to the Wheel: An Interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / John Whalen-Bridge
Works by Charles Johnson
Works about Charles Johnson's Fiction
Additional Interviews with Charles Johnson
Index
