Fenton Johnson

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Fenton Johnson has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Lambda Literary Awards for his fiction and creative nonfiction.  His seventh book, At the Center of All Beauty:  Solitude and the Creative Life (W.W. Norton), was listed as a New York Times Book Review editor's choice.  A regular contributor to American magazines, he also writes scripts for independent video documentaries.A professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, he leads creative writing workshops around the United States.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2015*

Best American Essays 2016*

Best American Essays 2019*

* indicates notable/special mention

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