About the Author Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five.
On one of her trips to the California desert the inspiration for her first novel, Toning the Sweep came about..
When not writing she travels.
She now lives in Northeastern Ohio in a hundred year old house full of plants.
About the Author Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five