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Mat Johnson was born on 19 August, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American fiction writer (born 1970). Discover Mat Johnson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August, 1970
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1741

The Great Negro Plot is a creative nonfiction that recounts the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741 and the resultant trial and hysteria.

1970

Mat Johnson (born August 19, 1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format.

1993

In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.

1999

Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1999.

Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Callaloo Journal Writers Retreat.

He was a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

He is currently a professor at the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program.

2000

Johnson's first novel, Drop (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, UK.

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.

2003

In 2003, Johnson published Hunting in Harlem (2003), a satire about gentrification in Harlem and an exploration of belief versus fanaticism.

2004

Hunting in Harlem won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year in 2004.

2005

Johnson made his first move into the comics form with the publication of the five-issue limited series Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite (Vertigo 2005), where he took an existing character of the Hellblazer franchise and created an origin story that strove to offer depth and dignity to a character who was arguably a racial stereotype of the noble savage.

2006

From 2006 to 2007, Johnson wrote the blog Niggerati Manor, which discussed African-American literature and culture.

2007

In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists.

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.

Johnson attended Abington Friends School, Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College.

Johnson was named a 2007 USA James Baldwin Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists.

2008

In February 2008, Vertigo Comics published Johnson's graphic novel Incognegro, a noir mystery that deals with the issue of passing and the lynching past of the American South.

The work is illustrated by British artist Warren Pleece with cover artwork by Stephen John Phillips.

2011

On September 21, 2011, Johnson was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature for his body of work focused on American themes and the human experience.

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2018

The work was set in 18th-century Manhattan, and was based on the research that Johnson was conducting for his first historical work, The Great Negro Plot.