Angela Johnson

About Angela Johnson

The author of children's pictures books, young adult novels, and poetry focusing on African-American families, Johnson is particularly well known for her Coretta Scott King Award-winning works The First Part Last (2004); Heaven (1999); and Toning the Sweep (1994).

Dustin Lee Honken and Angela Jane Johnson were convicted of the 1993 murders of five people in Iowa. The victims were related to a drug trial against Honken. Honken was involved in the manufacturing of methamphetamine and one of his dealers was set to testify against him, and so Honken and Johnson murdered him along with his girlfriend and her two daughters. A few months later, the fifth victim, also a former dealer, was murdered. Honken was sentenced to death and executed by the federal government on July 17, 2020, the first defendant from Iowa to be executed since 1963. Johnson was also sentenced to death, the first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s, but the sentence was overturned in 2012 and she was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2014.

Died	July 17, 2020, USP Terre Haute, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Criminal penalty	Death (October 11, 2005)
Born	Dustin Lee Honken, March 22, 1968, Britt, Iowa, U.S.
Cause of death	Execution by lethal injection

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Trivia

While working as a nanny for children's writer Cynthia Rylant, the young Johnson was mentored by the established author.

Angela Johnson before fame

Tell Me a Story, Mama, her first picture book, won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1991.

Achievement of Angela Johnson

Johnson was trained by Cynthia Rylant, a well-known children's novelist, while working as a nanny for her.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Angela Johnson family life

Many of her writings, especially The Other Side: Shorter Poems, a lyrical poetry book, provide a vivid image of her native state of Alabama's history and character. Despite being born in Tuskegee, Alabama, she spent the majority of her childhood in Windham, Ohio.

Associations of Angela Johnson

On the 1993 picture book Julius, she partnered with illustrator Dav Pilkey.

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