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Josephine Winslow Johnson (June 20, 1910 – February 27, 1990) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November. She is the youngest person to win the Pulitzer for Fiction.
Dec 4, 2018 · Josephine Johnson was the youngest-ever recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1935 for her novel Now in November. She was a gifted writer, a social activist, and a feminist, but her work and life are largely unknown today.
Jul 19, 2022 · A review of the 1934 novel that depicts the struggles of a farming family during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The book explores themes of thirst, injustice, love, and loss through the eyes of Marget, the middle daughter.
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when Josephine Winslow Johnson was only 24, depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.
Josephine Johnson is a native of Missouri whose first short story appeared in the Atlantic and who won the Pulitzer Prize with her beautifully descriptive novel, Now in November.
JOSEPHINE JOHNSON, a native of Missouri, whose first published short story appeared in the Atlantic, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1934 with her beautifully descriptive novel. Now in...
About Josephine Winslow Johnson: American novelist, poet, and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now ...
