Johnson, Josephine Winslow (1910–1990)
Johnson, Josephine Winslow (1910–1990)
American writer. Name variations: Josephine J. Cannon. Born June 20, 1910, in St. Louis Co., Missouri; died Feb 27, 1990, in Cincinnati, Ohio; dau. of Benjamin H. (merchant) and Ethel (Franklin) Johnson; Washington University, BA, 1931; m. Grant G. Cannon, 1942 (editor of Farm Quarterly, died).
Having spent most of life on a farm, published Now in November, at age 24, depicting middle-class, urban family that turns to subsistence farming during Depression, for which she won Pulitzer Prize (1935); also wrote Wildwood (1946), The Dark Traveler (1963) and The Inland Island (1969); involved with organizations that deal with inequality and poverty, including St. Louis Urban League, American Civil Liberties Union, and Cooperative Consumers of St. Louis.
See also Josephine Winslow Johnson, Seven Houses: A Memoir of Time and Places (Simon & Schuster, 1973).