The Lonely Heart
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Being alone is something I deal with daily. At the end of the day. It's just me. I have a lot of beautiful friends and I love them dearly. But this is a pain that travels with me every day. I know other people have felt or feel like this. This is who I dedicate this book to.
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur Fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
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