Claudia Hunter Johnson

Claudia Hunter Johnson is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. Her memoir Stifled Laughter was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the inaugural PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, and her Civil Rights documentary, The Other Side of Silence: The Untold Story of Ruby McCollum , won Best Florida Documentary at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Gold Jury Prize at Seattle's Social Justice Film Festival. She has taught screenwriting at...See more

Claudia Hunter Johnson is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. Her memoir Stifled Laughter was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the inaugural PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, and her Civil Rights documentary, The Other Side of Silence: The Untold Story of Ruby McCollum , won Best Florida Documentary at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Gold Jury Prize at Seattle's Social Justice Film Festival. She has taught screenwriting at Florida State University and USC. She divides her time between Annandale, Virginia, and Nova Scotia. See less