Mat Johnson
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Professor and Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities • Creative Writing & English Departments
- Office: 207 Alder Bldg
- Phone: (541) 346-0547
- Email: mrjohns6@uoregon.edu
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Profile
B.A., Earlham College, Indiana
M.F.A., Columbia University, New York
Publications
Novels
- The Invisible Things (One World/Random House, Coming June 2022)
- Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau/Random House, June 2015)
- 2016 American Book Award Winner
- Cover of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 1, 2015
- Named a New York Times Notable Book
- Named one of the “Ten Best Books of the Year” by the Miami Herald
- Best of the year selection by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Men’s Journal, The Denver Post, Slate, The Kansas City Star, Time Out New York
- Optioned by the Showtime Network
- Pym (Spiegel & Grau/Random House, March 2011)
- 2011 Dos Passos Prize Winner
- Best of the year selection by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Salon, National Post, The A.V. Club
- Hunting in Harlem (Bloomsbury USA, Spring 2003)
- 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best Novel
- Best African American Fiction anthology selection, Bantam 2009
- Drop (Bloomsbury USA, Fall 2000)
- Discovery Great New Writers Selection
- “Best Books of 2001” selection, Progressive Magazine
Creative Nonfiction
- Great Negro Plot (Bloomsbury USA, February 2007)
Graphic Novel
- Incognegro Renaissance (Dark Horse Comics, February 2018)
- Right State (Vertigo/Warner Books, August 2012)
- Dark Rain (Vertigo/Warner Books, August 2010)
- Incognegro (Vertigo/Warner Books, February 2008; 10th Anniversary Reissue, February 2018)
Screenwriting
- “Loving Day Pilot,” co-written with Sam Bain (Peep Show, Four Lions), Showtime Network/Random House Pictures, 2016
Mat Johnson is a recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Johnson is a regular commentator on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Honors & Awards
- American Book Award, 2016
- United States Artist Award: James Baldwin Fellowship Winner, 2008
- 2007 Best African American Fiction selection
- “2003 Five Writers on the Verge” selection, Shout Magazine, February 2003
- Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, excerption-Broadway Books, November 2003
- Discover Great New Writers selection, Barnes & Noble, Fall 2000
- “Writers to Watch” selection, Interview Magainze, Fall 2000
- Thomas J. Watson Fellow, conducted twelve-month field research of American Expatriates in Europe and Africa, 1993-1994
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