I am humbled by <i>Dreamer </i>and grateful for it. It is a transcendent, brilliant book
- David Guterson,
What unites <i>Dreamer</i>'s diverse concerns - biography, politics, sociology, ethics - is its passionate desire to celebrate black history and to vindicate King - it is powerful as a moral tribute
* The Sunday Times *
Like a skiff exploring history's more hidden currents, Johnson's poetic language drifts with care over the moiling currents of King's intellect, leaving in its wake a wonderful, prismatic novel, exhorting and testifying, but never preaching
* The Guardian *
His fiction transcends the immediate concerns of race and colour, and will find its place in the great body of literature produced by America's humanitarian tradition
* Literary Review *