![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson has set many of her works of young adult literature, picture books and other works in Alabama, sometimes specifically Macon County. ![]() Johnson and her family moved to Ohio when she was just a child, and many of her more than 40 books were written with a children's audience in mind, and most often about the African-American family experience. "I am very happy for Angela Johnson to be returning to Alabama virtually," Thompson said, speaking of the 2021 Zoom version of the Monroeville Literary Festival, March 4-6, "so that we can make her work more known to families and readers in Alabama." That's a knowledge gap the prestigious award should help address, said Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum. ![]() Angela Johnson, the 2021 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer recipient, was born in Tuskegee, though her name may not be as immediately recognizable in her birth state as that of previous recipients, such as Rick Bragg, Fannie Flagg, Gay Talese, Winston Groom or Mark Childress. ![]()
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