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Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction. [2]
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May 24, 2017 · Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993), a Whiting Writer's Award (1986), the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from ...
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View more. Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the ...
Jun 6, 2017 · June 6, 2017. Denis Johnson knew that the only thing that really mattered in the end was the fiction on the page. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARION ETTLINGER / CORBIS VIA GETTY. When a friend texted me the ...
May 26, 2017 · Denis Johnson, a National Book Award winner whose novels and short stories about the fallen — junkies, down-and-out travelers, drifters and violent men in the United States and abroad — emerged...
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May 26, 2017 · His most recent book is “ The Plague Year.”. Lawrence Wright remembers the fiction and poetry writer and New Yorker contributor Denis Johnson, who died on Wednesday, at the age of sixty-seven.
