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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]
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.
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 ...
May 30, 2017 · His name was Denis Johnson, and he died last week of liver cancer at his home in Gualala, California, a community on the Sonoma County coast whose particular brand of madness was brilliantly ...
Jul 24, 2017 · Everywhere Denis Johnson went, he portrayed himself as an openhearted American bumbler not unlike his hapless characters.
May 27, 2017 · Author Denis Johnson has died at the age of 67. He was best known for the short story collection Jesus' Son.
May 26, 2017 · Denis Johnson, the poet and novelist whose work lent his desperate and sometimes crazed characters an almost mythic dimension. Credit... Marion Ettlinger/Corbis, via Getty Images
