Fenton Johnson, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-618-00442-3
Spiritual homecoming stories are often predictable in both form and content, but Johnson's account of his passage from skepticism to faith is exceedingly refreshing and pure in its honesty. Raised in a Kentucky community that is home to the...
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Fenton Johnson, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81417-9
Novelist Johnson (Scissors, Paper, Rock) watched his lover, San Francisco high-school teacher Larry Rose, die of AIDS in a Paris hospital in 1990 after an intense three-year relationship. Rose was HIV-positive but asymptomatic when they met, and...
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Fenton Johnson, Author Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79541-2
Johnson follows Crossing the River with a wise and compassionate novel. Eleven episodes explore the history of the Hardin family of Strang Knob, Ky., a fading community hidden away in the Appalachians. At the thematic center is 36-year-old Raphael,...
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Fenton Johnson, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Pocket Books $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79542-9
A novelist and essayist helps his partner face death from AIDS. (June)
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Fenton Johnson, Author, Hillel Black, Editor Carol Publishing Corporation $15.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-55972-000-7
Martha Bragg Picket is an original. Brandishing her confederate lineage and tossing her red hair, she crosses the river near her Kentucky home in the mid-1940s, stepping out of her fundamentalist Baptist world, and setting convention on its ear....
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Fenton Johnson. Sarabande, $15.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-941411-43-8
In this collection of 26 essays, the earliest published in 1989, Johnson (The Man Who Loved Birds) contemplates questions of identity, belonging, and belief. With a deft hand and trained ear for storytelling, he explores growing up Catholic in...
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Fenton Johnson. Norton, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-60829-8
In this stirring memoir and social critique, Johnson (Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays) explores a life of solitude of those who “sit alone writing, painting, or reading, or watching the changing light.” A self-described “solitary,” Johnson posits...
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