Charles Johnson and Eric Sundquist, Hammer Museum

Charles Johnson, a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, received the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage in 1990, and is a 2002 recipient of the Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eric J. Sundquist is the UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature and a member of the Department of English. He is the author or editor of twelve books including King's Dream (2008), Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005), and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993).

Hammer Converations is an ongoing series that pairs creative thinkers from a range of disciplines for engaging, provocative discussions on culture, science, and the arts.

Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA at www.hammer.ucla.edu.

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