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African-American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation, journalist, Buddhist, practicing martial artist and teacher.
Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as FAITH AND THE GOOD THING (1974),OXHERDING TALE (1982),MIDDLE PASSAGE (1990),DREAMER (1998) and in short stories collected in THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (1986),SOULCATCHER AND OTHER STORIES (2000) and NIGHT HAWKS: STORIES (2018). Johnson spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English says that Johnson's works "combine historical accuracy, parable, and elements of the fantastic in rendering the experience of African Americans." Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990, making him the second African-American man to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. He received a MacArthur Fellowship or "Genius Grant" in 1998. He is also the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships, and many other prizes.