{"id":5935,"date":"2016-09-28T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:25:49","slug":"johnson-angela-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5935","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, ANGELA, 1961-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;June 18, 1961, Tuskegee.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Arthur and Truzetta Johnson.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Kent State.\u00a0 Child development worker, VISTA,\u00a0 Ravenna, Ohio; freelance writer of children&#8217;s books, after 1989.\u00a0 Member Authors Guild, Authors League of America. Winner of many awards including the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, 1991; Coretta Scott King Honor Book designation, 1991,1998; Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1993, 1998, 2004; Michael J. Printz Award, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something about the Author; Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Different Now.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Aunt in Our House.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Bird.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dial Books, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>A Certain October.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A Cool Moonlight.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dial Books, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy Calls Me Man.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Day Ray Got Away.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Do Like Kyla.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Down the Winding Road.\u00a0 DK Ink, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The First Part Last.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The Girl Who Wore Snakes.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Gone from Home:\u00a0 Short Takes.\u00a0 New York: Dell, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Humming Whispers.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>I Dream of Trains.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua by the Sea.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua&#8217;s Night Whispers.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Julius.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Just Like Josh Gibson.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The Leaving Morning.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Brown&#8217;s Paintings.\u00a0 New York: Orchard Books, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for Red.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Lottie Paris and the Best Place.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2013&#8242;<\/p>\n<p>Lottie Paris Lives Here.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Mama Bird, Baby Birds.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Random House, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>One of Three.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Other Side: Shorter Poems.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Rain Feet.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The Rolling Store.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Running Back to Ludie.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Shoes Like Miss Alice&#8217;s.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Songs of Faith.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet, Hereafter.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A Sweet Smell of Roses.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Me a Story, Mama.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Those Building Men.\u00a0 New York: Scholastic, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Toning the Sweep.\u00a0 New York: Orchard Books, 1993; rpt., 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Violet&#8217;s Music.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dial Books, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Wedding.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>When I Am Old with You.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Orchard Books, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street.\u00a0 New York: Random House, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Wind Flyers.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp;Schuster, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;June 18, 1961, Tuskegee.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Arthur and Truzetta Johnson.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Kent State.\u00a0 Child development worker, VISTA,\u00a0 Ravenna, Ohio; freelance writer of children&#8217;s books, after 1989.\u00a0 Member Authors Guild, Authors League of America. 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