When she decided not to return to school, she was able to write again. Johnson began attending classes at Kent State University but developed writer’s block. She began keeping a journal in elementary school after reading Harriet the Spy, and she wrote poetry in high school, but she expected to become either a social worker or a teacher.

Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 2005, for The First Part LastĪngela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Ala., but her family moved to a small town in Ohio when she was a child.

Printz Award, American Library Association, 2004, for The First Part Last

Coretta Scott King Award, American Library Association, 2004, for The First Part Last.

Coretta Scott King Award, American Library Association, 1999, for Heaven.

Coretta Scott King Award, American Library Association, 1994, for Toning the Sweep.

Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 1993, for When I Am Old With You.

Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, New York Public Library and Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, 1991, for Tell Me a Story, Mama.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.

Tuskegee, Macon County: birthplace, early childhood residence.

Angela Johnson (June 18, 1961–present) Alabama Connections

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