Born and raised in New Orleans, T. Geronimo Johnson is the bestselling author of WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE, longlisted for the National Book Award and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence; and HOLD IT 'TIL IT HURTS, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. He won the inaugural Joyce Carol Oates Award, the Rome Prize, Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and the William Saroyan International Prize; received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he later taught writing; and has held Stegner and Iowa Arts fellowships. His latest novel is THE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD.

Books by T. Geronimo Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville

by T. Geronimo Johnson - Fiction

From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of HOLD IT ‘TIL IT HURTS comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment --- a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer.