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Fenton Johnson (poet)
Fenton Johnson (born May 7, 1888 Chicago - died September 17, 1958 Chicago) was an American poet, essayist, author of short stories, editor, and educator.
==Early life and career==
Johnson was born on May 7, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois to parents Elijah and Jesse (Taylor) Johnson. His father, Elijah Johnson, was a railroad porter and his family was one of the wealthiest African American families in Chicago during this time. That his family owned the State Street building in which they lived provides evidence of such a financial security. According to a biographical note by Arna Bontemps, Johnson is anecdotally described as being “a dapper boy who drove his own electric automobile around Chicago.”〔Arne Bontemps, “Fenton Johnson,” American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1996) 222-223. Accessed on Google eBooks 26 Oct 2011〕 Growing up, Johnson recounts himself as "having scribbled since the age of nine," but even despite these indications of a literary inclination, Johnson did not initially plan to embark on a career in letters, and certainly not poetry specifically. Rather, throughout this childhood, Johnson intended to pursue an office in the clergy.〔Elizabeth Sanders and Delwiche Engelhardt, “Fenton Johnson,” The concise Oxford companion to African American literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) 229. Accessed on Google eBooks 26 Oct 2011〕
The entirely of Johnson’s childhood was spent in Chicago, and he received his secondary education at various secondary public schools in the city, including Englewood High School and Wendell Phillips High School. Johnson first began his undergraduate education at Northwestern University, which he attended from 1908-1909. He went on to complete his degree at the University of Chicago. Johnson later received a degree from the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University.〔
Following his graduation from the University of Chicago, Fenton worked as a messenger and in the post office before he began to teach English at the State University of Louisville, which was a private, black, Baptist-owned institution in Kentucky that would later would become Simmons College. He only taught at the State University of Louisville from 1910-1911, and returned to Chicago in 1911 to concentrate on his literary career.〔
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