Mat Johnson
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Mat Johnson at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
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| Born |
August 19, 1970 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Irish/African |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education |
Greene Street Friends School West Chester University University of Wales, Swansea |
| Alma mater |
Earlham College, B.A. Columbia University School of the Arts, M.F.A. |
| Notable works |
Pym Incognegro |
| Website | |
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Mat Johnson (born August 19, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American writer of literary fiction who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation.
Mat Johnson was born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy communities in Philadelphia.
His mother is African American and his father is Irish Catholic. He attended Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College. In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts (1999).
Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Callaloo Journal Writers Retreat. He is now a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Johnson lives in Houston.
Johnson’s first novel, Drop (Bloomsbury USA, 2000), was a coming-of-age novel about a self-hating Philadelphian who thinks he has found his escape when he takes a job at a Brixton-based advertising agency in London, U.K. The work was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; Interview magazine named Johnson as a “Writer on the Verge”; and Drop was listed among “Best Novels of the Year” by Progressive Magazine.
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