Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. His fiction includes DR. KING'S REFRIGERATOR, DREAMER, FAITH, AND THE GOOD THING, and MIDDLE PASSAGE, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

Books by Charles Johnson

The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

by Charles Johnson - Nonfiction, Writing

For thirty-three years, Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage, taught and mentored students in the art and craft of creative writing. THE WAY OF THE WRITER is his record of those years, and the coda to a kaleidoscopic, boundary-shattering career. Organized into six accessible, easy-to-navigate sections, THE WAY OF THE WRITER is both a literary reflection on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process.