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Mat Johnson (born in Philadelphia August 19, 1970) is an American writer of literary fiction who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation. ==Biography== Mat 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. He attended Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College. In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts (1999). Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and ''The Callaloo Journal'' Writers Retreat. He is now a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Johnson lives in Houston. Johnson’s first novel, ''Drop'' (Bloomsbury USA, 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, U.K. 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.'' In 2003, Johnson published ''Hunting in Harlem'' (Bloomsbury USA 2003), a satire about gentrification in Harlem and an exploration of belief versus fanaticism. ''Hunting in Harlem'' won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year. 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. The work was set in 18th century Manhattan, and was based around the research that Johnson was conducting for his first historical work, ''The Great Negro Plot'' (Bloomsbury USA). ''The Great Negro Plot'' is a creative nonfiction that recounts the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741 and the resultant trial and hysteria.〔(Johnson Tells the Unknown Origin of "Hellblazer's" Papa Midnite in New Mini ), Comic Book Resources, February 2, 2005〕 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.〔(Mat Johnson on Incognegro ), Newsarama, November 29, 2007〕 From 2006 to 2007, Johnson wrote the blog ''Niggerati Manor'', which discussed African-American literature and culture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mat Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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