Charles Johnson

S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English. Novelist, literary critic, screenwriter, philosopher, and cartoonist. Works include Dreamer, Oxherding Tale, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, which received the National Book Award; The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Soulcatcher; and Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King Jr., and Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing. Recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.