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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce Carol Oates Prize | 2017 | Winner | “Mid-career fiction writer with distinguished body of work” |
| Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
T. Geronimo Johnson's novel follows four Berkeley freshmen who stage a performance art piece at a Confederate reenactment in rural Georgia with disastrous results, satirizing race, privilege, and American history. Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.
About the Author
T. Geronimo Johnson is an American novelist and professor whose fiction addresses race, class, and American identity with formal ambition and satirical power. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Read more →
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