Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival
Novelist, cartoonist, literary scholar, and philosopher, Charles Johnson is the author of 25 books, including Night Hawks, The Way of the Writer, and Middle Passage, which won the National Book Award. He is a MacAurthur fellow and recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Science. His forthcoming graphic novel, with Steven Barnes, The Eightfold Path, interweaves Buddhist teachings and Afrofuturism.
Live Online Event
Buddhism, Writing and Race: An interview with Charles Johnson
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Moderator: George Tanabe, UH Mānoa Professor Emeritus of Religion
Lead Event Sponsors: BDK Hawai‘i and the Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival
BTSS Series Sponsors: Hawai‘i Community Foundation; Kamehameha Schools