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Mat Johnson

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Mat Johnson

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Full Name: Mat Johnson
Born: August 19, 1970
Philadelphia, PA
Occupation: Author
Nationality: American
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Biography

Mat Johnson is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists.

Johnson was born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy communities in Philadelphia.

His mother is African-American and his father is Irish Catholic. He attended Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College. In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1999.

Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Callaloo Journal Writers Retreat. He is a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Johnson lives in Houston.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

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