Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson (left, with Bobby Eaton) is a graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). He covered government and politics for several newspapers in Virginia. At the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.), he won top awards from the Virginia Press Association for investigative/in-depth reporting and general reporting. As managing editor of Electric Co-op Today and its digital successors, he won more than 20 regional and national awards for reporting energy-related stories. He served as editor of Cooperative Living, the most widely circulated magazine in Virginia, and is a contributing writer at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

He's pretty sure he's the only writer alive who has interviewed Jerry Falwell, Muhammad Ali, General Alexander Haig and Abdullah the Butcher.

With co-author Greg Oliver, Johnson is a past recipient of the journalism award from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame/Dan Gable Museum and received the James Melby Historian Award in 2022 from the Cauliflower Alley Club. He writes frequently about pro wrestling, which often is indistinguishable from politics, except for the fact that one is a work and one is not.