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Brad Johnson papers
- Title
- Brad Johnson papers, approximately 1970-2011.
- Author
- Johnson, Brad, 1952-2011.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 4 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 5 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 844 Box 6 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 3.4 linear feet (5 archival boxes, 1 flat box)
- Summary
- The Brad Johnson Papers, 1952-2011, are arranged into three series: Biographical, Writings, and Correspondence. The Biographical file documents the major events in his life: education, Navy career, work history, involvement in gay organizations, publishing history, and diaries. The Writings series forms the bulk of the collection, especially his poems, both published and unpublished. The Correspondence series contains a significant amount of letters from a former lover, the musician and conductor, Charles Darden, and others. Of note is a long "coming-out" letter to his parents expressing the anger and loneliness of the gay Black man in America.
- Subjects
- Racism > Poetry
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- American poetry > African American authors
- Johnson, Brad, 1952-2011
- Authors > 20th century
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Gay and lesbian studies
- Darden, Charles
- African American authors > 20th century
- AIDS (Disease) > United States
- Yale University > Black Orchid Association, Inc
- African American poets
- Black author
- Gay, lesbian, and queer studies
- Homosexuality > Poetry
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Brad Johnson
- Biography (note)
- Brad Johnson was a gay African-American poet and writer. Born in California in 1952, and raised in Philadelphia, he graduated from Yale University after spending his junior year in France. His early poems were in French, but his publishing career as a poet began in 1985 and continued through the 1990s, chiefly in anthologies including "In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology," edited by Joseph Beam, and Black, gay-oriented periodicals such as "The Pyramid Periodical." Major themes of his poems include love, romance, sex, homophobia, and loneliness. After the 1990s, he described his writing output as "scant" and eventually he became "reclusive and stopped writing." Johnson died in 2011 from complications due to AIDS.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 844
- OCLC
- 907559002
- Author
- Johnson, Brad, 1952-2011.
- Title
- Brad Johnson papers, approximately 1970-2011.
- Biography
- Brad Johnson was a gay African-American poet and writer. Born in California in 1952, and raised in Philadelphia, he graduated from Yale University after spending his junior year in France. His early poems were in French, but his publishing career as a poet began in 1985 and continued through the 1990s, chiefly in anthologies including "In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology," edited by Joseph Beam, and Black, gay-oriented periodicals such as "The Pyramid Periodical." Major themes of his poems include love, romance, sex, homophobia, and loneliness. After the 1990s, he described his writing output as "scant" and eventually he became "reclusive and stopped writing." Johnson died in 2011 from complications due to AIDS.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 844