{"id":1815,"date":"2023-09-11T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1815"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:13:22","slug":"mat-johnson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/mat-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mat Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0is a Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities at the University of Oregon. His publications include the novels\u00a0<em>Invisible Things,\u00a0Loving Day<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Pym<\/em>,\u00a0the nonfiction novella\u00a0<em>The Great Negro Plot<\/em>, and the graphic novel\u00a0<em>Incognegro<\/em>.\u00a0Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artists James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1817\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Johnson__Invisible-Things_Invisible-Things-Cover-Andrea-Pura-678x1024-1-199x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Johnson__Invisible-Things_Invisible-Things-Cover-Andrea-Pura-678x1024-1-199x300.webp 199w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Johnson__Invisible-Things_Invisible-Things-Cover-Andrea-Pura-678x1024-1-575x868.webp 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Johnson__Invisible-Things_Invisible-Things-Cover-Andrea-Pura-678x1024-1-380x574.webp 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Johnson__Invisible-Things_Invisible-Things-Cover-Andrea-Pura-678x1024-1.webp 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Johnson\u00a0is a Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities at the University of Oregon. His publications include the novels\u00a0Invisible Things,\u00a0Loving Day,\u00a0and\u00a0Pym,\u00a0the nonfiction novella\u00a0The Great Negro Plot, and the graphic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1818,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1815\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}