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  2. Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany. [1] Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines , Japan, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His father, Alfred Johnson, worked for the State Department as a liaison between the USIA and the CIA .

  3. Feb 28, 2018 · Eventually it surfaced, on a dusty ancient Sony type-1 normal bias, and there, suddenly, was Denis — before books like Train Dreams and Tree of Smoke, and before his last recent posthumous book of stories The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, which, as it turns out, would be his only other collection of stories. On the recording he is soft-spoken ...

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  4. May 26, 2017 · May 26, 2017. In one of the rare interviews he did, the fiction writer and poet Denis Johnson — who died on Wednesday at 67 — was asked about his craft, and he quoted these lines from Joseph...

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  5. Johnson was himself born a drifter. His father, Alfred Johnson, worked for the U.S. Information Agency and moved with his family between diplomatic posts in Germany, Japan, and the Philippines...

  6. May 31, 2017 · On May 24, 2017, Denis Johnson, one of the great writers of his generation, died. We asked a few of his colleagues, friends, and former students to share their thoughts on what he meant both to the people who knew him, and to American letters.

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  7. May 26, 2017 · The author of “Heartland,” a memoir about growing up on a farm in Kansas, talks about the books that have influenced her career-long exploration of the country’s poor.

  8. May 26, 2017 · He’s written not one but two books that can vie for the best work of fiction in the 21st century—Tree of Smoke, an epic novel about the Vietnam War that may actually be his finest piece of writing,...

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