I was backstage most of the night and didn't hear all of the speeches. Willy Vlautin's novel "Lean on Pete" won two Oregon Book Awards on Monday, the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a new Readers ...

William (Willy) Floyd Johnson passed away on March 24, 2023, at the age of 63, in Springfield, OR. Willy was born in Port Angeles, WA on October 6, 1959, and grew up in Beaver, Washington.