Anthony Godby Johnson is the subject and supposed author of the 1993 memoir A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story. Subsequent investigations suggest that there may have never been a person by this name, and that his entire story was a fabrication on the part of Vicki Johnson, the woman who purported to be his adoptive mother.
The book initially appeared to be an autobiography describing Johnson's survival of an abusive childhood with parents who beat him and raped him. The book details his abuse at the hands of his parents and their friends, and his discovery at age 11, after he had been adopted by another couple, that he had AIDS.
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