Fenton Johnson
| John Fenton Johnson | |
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October 25, 1953 Kentucky, United States |
| Pen name | Fenton Johnson |
| Occupation | author |
| Nationality | American |
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John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.
Life
His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and the San Francisco Zen Center as a means to examining what it means to a skeptic to have and keep faith. Keeping Faith weaves frank conversations with Trappist and Buddhist monks with a history of the contemplative life and meditations from Johnson’s experience of the virtue we call faith. It received the 2004 Kentucky Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for best GLBT creative nonfiction. .
Awards
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's Stonewall Book Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction. He received a 2007 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to support completion of his third novel and to begin research and writing on a nonfiction project.
Works
Novels
- Crossing the River (1991), Birch Lane Press
- Scissors, Paper, Rock (1994), Washington Square Press
Memoir
- Geography of the Heart: A Memoir, Scribner's.
- Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2004. ISBN 978-0-618-49237-4.
References
External links
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