Fenton Johnson

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Fenton Johnson (born October 25, 1953) is an award-winning author of Crossing the River, Scissors, Paper, Rock, Geography of the Heart: A Memoir, and Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey. He was born in Kentucky and was the ninth out of nine children. He dreamed of becoming the U.S. President when he was younger, but decided to become a writer after he enrolled in Stanford University. He is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and is working on a new novel.

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He has received awards from the Wallace Stegner and James Michener Fellowships in Fiction and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and creative nonfiction. He has also received a Kentucky Literary Award, two Lambda Literary Awards for best creative nonfiction, as well as the American Library Association Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction.