Joan J Johnson

Joan J. Johnson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. She attended Bethany College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Fairfield University and taught the gifted program and high school English in Darien, Connecticut. She is the author of six young-adult non-fiction works, including America's War on Drugs, Cults in America, Kids Without Homes, Teen Prostitution, Children of Welfare and Justice, published by Franklin Watts (now part of Scholastic) and Henry Holt. She was honored at the Governor's mansion as a top ten finalist in Connecticut Magazine's fiction contest and two of her non-fiction books were cited as among the year's best young adult non-fiction by the New York Public Library. In 2006, she published her first novel, PANDEMIC, and in 2013, SALAMANDER CROSSING.