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] Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for ...

May 26, 2017 · Lawrence Wright remembers the fiction and poetry writer and New Yorker contributor Denis Johnson, who died on Wednesday, at the age of sixty-seven.

Poet, writer, and playwright Denis Johnson was born in Munich, Germany, where his father worked for the State Department. He grew up in the Philippines, Japan, and Washington DC, and earned an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop.

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 ...

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.

May 26, 2017 · Denis Johnson, the author behind the seminal collection Jesus' Son, has died at the age of 67. A protean stylist who made a career of defying readers' expectations, he crafted fiction, poetry and...

Jun 6, 2017 · David Means shares his memories of Denis Johnson, the novelist and poet, who taught Means in graduate school, at Columbia.

May 26, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright best known for his surreal and transcendent story collection “Jesus’ Son,” has died at age 67. Johnson died Wednesday, according to his literary agent, Nicole Aragi.

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' ...

Born in Munich, Germany, in 1949, Denis Johnson is the author of many works of poetry and prose, including The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (Harper Perennial, 1995).