About Allan G. Johnson

Allan Johnson has been writing for most of his life, beginning with poetry and short fiction through his college years and then mostly nonfiction for the thirty years that he practiced sociology as a teacher and then public speaker on issues of social justice. He returned to his first love as a writer—the power of story, as fiction and memoir—following publication of The Gender Knot.

Signed copies of Allan Johnson’s books are available directly from the author. For information, send Allan an email by clicking here.

The First Thing and the Last Thing
The Gender Knot
Privilege, Power, and Difference
The Forest and the Trees
The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology
Foreign Editions

Idiots, Morons, Lunatics, and Fools: When Worldviews Collide

By Allan G. Johnson

Allan G. Johnson: When we lack information that is important to us, we tend to make it up. Our worldview is our primary source of such material.

Fatal Distraction: Manhood, Guns, and Violence

By Allan G. Johnson

Allan Johnson: Our culture rarely focuses on the connection between men and violence. Quite simply because men won’t like it if you do. We are a nation tiptoeing around men’s anger, men’s ridicule, men’s potential to withhold resources (such as funding for battered women’s shelters and sexual assault programs)