Josephine Johnson (1910–1990) was an American novelist and poet born, raised and educated in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1935, at the age of 24, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Now In November. She continued to write throughout her life and several of her short stories won the O. Henry Award.In 1942 she married Grant G. Cannon, editor in chief of the Farm Quarterly, with whom she had three children. Johnson, raised on a farm, always preferred a rural environment over city life and in addition to her writing was a devoted housewife and mother; Johnson used land and farm living as a setting for many of her stories.
3 Ebooks by Johnson Josephine Johnson
Johnson Josephine Johnson: Dark Traveler
The passionate man who loves with strength and lives with violence…The silent, lonely boy who exists in a world of strange loves and longings…The evil, terrifying creature of the night, which …
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Josephine Johnson: Now In November
Now in November I can see our years as a whole. This autumn is like both an end and a beginning to our lives, and those days which seemed confused with the blur of all things too near and too …
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Johnson Josephine Johnson: Winter Orchard and Other Stories
This collection of twenty-two short stories was first published in 1936, a year after Josephine Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel Now in November. Some of these stories were published …
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