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Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson was a political activist in the 1960s, a homesteader in the 1970s, later lived in Brooklyn where he supported his writing habit with carpentry work, was a founding editor of Win magazine, and later moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife, Fran, an art therapist. Robert Miner in The New York Times Book Review said of his first novel, Killing the Blues, “The voice in Paul Johnson’s first novel is tough, amusing, cantankerous and sometimes astonishingly gentle,” and a second review in that publication called his novel, Operation Remission, “remarkable as much for its subject matter as its literary flair.”

Paul Johnson died shortly after finishing City of Kings, his 4th published novel, in November 2006. He had been battling cancer for a long time but the joy of writing kept him going a little longer than expected. His humour and kind nature will be much missed.

		City of Kings by Paul Johnson ISBN: 0-978-9766274-8-7 172 pages Price: $15.00 Just when Paul Johnson's anti-hero, Casey, first seen in four novels ago in the critically praised Killing the Blues, thought it was safe to come in from the cold, have a lover, and great Italian food, he crosses the street in Brooklyn where random violence threatens to destroy his life in this provocative and unpredictable mystery.
		The Marble Orchard ISBN 0-9766274-6-9 295 pages Price: $18.95 "...a deep, sweet story of accidental enlightenment. Pay particular attention to the speech of the characters; you've met them, you know them, and there's more to them than you ever suspected. The Marble Orchard is an optimistic coming-of-middle-age novel that will resonate loud and strong with those of us struggling to stay hopeful as we deal with aging, loss, and regrets." - Nancy Cardozo BC Trujillo at the Las Vegas Optic called this book a “great deal of fun to read” (see interview with the author at www.lasvegasoptic.com run on July 26, 2006). Buy this book on Amazon - Click Here