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

From Charles Johnson a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing. An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings. For thirty-three years, Johnson 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.