Harris had abandoned his family when they were young, some twenty years before, and moved to California.
The Harris Men recounts the story of Julius Harris and his three sons. The manuscript was sold in 1997, and published by Simon & Schuster in 1999. When The Harris Men was finished in 1996, Harris helped the younger writer find a publisher, and even invited him along on his own promotional tours. Johnson was helped early on in his career by another successful African-American writer, E. For a time, Johnson worked as a radiation therapist at a hospital in suburban Chicago, but decided to pursue writing full-time and moved into his mother ’s basement to write his first book. From there, he relocated again, earning a science degree from Northeast Louisiana University in 1995. to attend Howard University, from which he earned certification as a radiation therapist in 1994.
Realizing that in order to write he needed to find a steady job to support himself, he moved to Washington, D.C. Upon his release, he began taking film courses at Chicago ’s Columbia College, but a fiction writing class caused him to change direction. Army soon afterward, and spent five years in the service. Johnson was born in 1968 and raised in Chicago, graduating from Morgan Park High School. “In unremarkable yet unfaltering prose, Johnson looks at the microcosm of one African-American family and in so doing bears sympathetic witness to widespread American phenomenon, ” noted a Publishers Weekly contributor in a review of the first novel. Johnson ’s saga earned solid praise from reviewers. Both The Harris Men and its sequel, The Harris Family, center around the enduring legacy left behind when a father abandons his three young sons to find his own fortune in the world. Johnson is the author of three popular novels, two of which follow the travails of an African-American family forever sundered.
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