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  1. 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. Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

  2. May 26, 2017 · By Richard Sandomir. 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...

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  4. 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.

  5. Jun 6, 2017 · I wanted to convey to young writers that no single comment on a line in a poem, no workshop or advice, can offer more guidance than simple contact with a creative soul: an arm around a young ...

  6. 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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  7. 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...

  8. 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. Johnson died of liver cancer at his home in The Sea Ranch, outside of Gualala, California.

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