Magazine Writer

Paid $1500 per story, Johnson was one of the highest paid writers for the Saturday Evening Post. He was listed on the cover with John Marquand, John Gould Cozzens, and Don Marquis. Among his seventy-one Post stories, several are about Columbus, Georgia, which he called "Riverside." A list of his short stories is available here.

Johnson's talent as a writer was recognized when H. Allen Smith picked Johnson's collection of stories, There Ought to be a Law, as one of the best books of humorous short stories of 1931.

"Nunnally Johnson invariably refused to be over-impressed by anything (I hope to read his comments on the events of the Last Great Day, to see whether Gabriel himself can awe Johnson), and he never tried to manufacture a jest where there was no jest to be manufactured."
-- Walter Winchell, "Beau Broadway" column, 1929 		Walter Winchell
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