Lonnell E JohnsonSince connecting with Author Academy Elite, Lonnell Johnson works to enhance his communication skills as an author, teacher, and motivational speaker. In addition to Embracing Your Life Sentence: How Life's Greatest Tragedies Can Become Your GreatestTriumphs, Johnson has published Watch, Fight, and Pray, another work related to his overcoming prostate cancer. He has also published essays and articles on a variety of subjects along with three collections of poetry: Ears Near to the Lips of God; Sacred Jazz: Music, Mood and Mind and Stone upon Stone: Psalms of Remembrance. With a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Purdue University, Johnson was drafted into the Army in 1967 and served as pharmacy instructor at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This experience introduced him to the joys of classroom teaching, eventually leading to a Master's degree in English from Emporia State University and a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. For more than 40 years he has taught English on the university level in Kansas, Indiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio. Dr. Johnson currently serves as adjunct professor at Carolina College of Biblical Studies in Fayetteville. Previously he also taught at Fayetteville State University, as Associate Professor. He continues to serve as a public speaker offering poetry readings and motivational presentations to local churches, public schools, universities, and civic organizations. Read More Read Less