Charles Johnson (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Believing that a writer should be able to express himself with competence in all forms of the written word, Charles Johnson has successfully published in several genres, including more than one thousand satirical comic drawings and two books of socially relevant cartoons, Black Humor (1970) and Half-Past Nation Time (1972). Six of the eight short stories in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1986) were written as psychic releases from the difficulty Johnson experienced in creating a draft of Oxherding Tale. Two of the eight are award...

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