Bio: Ron Johnson has won prizes for his fiction and creative non-fiction. He is currently a professor of English at Northern Michigan University, where he teaches writing and literature courses. He has published short fiction in the United States and New Zealand. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD in English from the University of Utah.
Silver Thaw is set in the late '60s in the Great Central Valley of California. It's a story of four friends forced to confront the moral, sexual and political parameters which will define their adult lives. There is the loss of innocence precipitated by the Vietnam War, but the main battle is an internal struggle that each must encounter and confront within themselves. Art is a quiet, independent-minded college student who wants to become a high school shop teacher. He has recently become intima... more info>> Category: Mainstream
Silver Thaw is set in the late '60s in the Great Central Valley of California. It's a story of four friends forced to confront the moral, sexual and political parameters which will define their adult lives. There is the loss of innocence precipitated by the Vietnam War, but the main battle is an internal struggle that each must encounter and confront within themselves. Art is a quiet, independent-minded college student who wants to become a high school shop teacher. He has recently become intima... 
