Denis Johnson (1949–2017)

Author of Jesus' Son: Stories

Includes the names: Denis Johnson

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Denis Johnson was born in Munich, Germany on July 1, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He published his first book of poetry, The Man Among the Seals, at the age of 19. However, addictions to alcohol and drugs derailed him and he was in a psychiatric ward at the age of 21. He was sober by the early 1980s. Along with writing several volumes of poetry, Johnson wrote short stories for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. His novels included Angels, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Already Dead, Nobody Move, Train Dreams, and The Laughing Monsters. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for Tree of Smoke. He also received the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts, the Robert Frost Award, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He died of liver cancer on May 24, 2017 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Jesus' Son: Stories… (more)

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Jesus' Son: Stories 2,756 copies, 79 reviews

Tree of Smoke 2,352 copies, 73 reviews

Train Dreams 1,555 copies, 110 reviews

Nobody Move 719 copies, 55 reviews

Angels 687 copies, 18 reviews

Already Dead: A California Gothic 670 copies, 12 reviews

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories 561 copies, 33 reviews

Fiskadoro 541 copies, 7 reviews

The Name of the World 488 copies, 6 reviews

The Laughing Monsters 415 copies, 20 reviews

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man 339 copies, 4 reviews

Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond 284 copies, 5 reviews

The Stars at Noon 237 copies, 3 reviews

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly:… 161 copies, 4 reviews

The Incognito Lounge 87 copies, 4 reviews

Shoppers: Two Plays by Denis Johnson 42 copies, 1 review

The Veil 33 copies

Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse 16 copies

The Man Among the Seals & Inner Weather 5 copies

Hit Me [1996 film] (Writer) 5 copies

Hell Hound on my Trail 4 copies, 1 review

Emergency (Short Story) 3 copies

Inner Weather 3 copies, 1 review

Train Dreams and Jesus' Son 2 copies

Car Crash While Hitchhiking and Emergency: Two Stories (Picador Singles) 1 copy

Fünf Hinrichtungen und ein Barbecue: Eine Reportage (Rowohlt Rotation) 1 copy

The Man Among the Seals 1 copy, 1 review

Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Short Story) 1 copy

Lucky 1 copy

Soul of a Whore: Act 2 1 copy

Soul of a Whore: Act 3 1 copy

Soul of a Whore: Act 1 1 copy

Work (short story) 1 copy

The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford 1 copy

Dundun (Short Story) 1 copy

Sueños de trenes 2002 1 copy

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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,212 copies, 9 reviews

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Contributor) 747 copies, 20 reviews

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributor) 489 copies, 4 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (Contributor) 465 copies, 1 review

Fat City (Introduction, some editions) 464 copies, 17 reviews

Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami (Contributor) 442 copies, 5 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 16 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 442 copies, 4 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War… (Contributor) 398 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (Contributor) 359 copies, 9 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (Contributor) 331 copies, 4 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (Contributor) 320 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1992 (Contributor) 216 copies, 3 reviews

Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (Contributor) 216 copies, 9 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1990 (Contributor) 215 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2015 (Contributor) 213 copies, 3 reviews

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 202 copies, 1 review

McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is… (Contributor) 200 copies, 2 reviews

The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories,… (Contributor) 185 copies, 1 review

Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Contributor) 183 copies, 4 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (Contributor) 162 copies, 3 reviews

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (Contributor) 138 copies, 1 review

Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have… (Contributor) 120 copies, 2 reviews

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (Contributor) 119 copies, 1 review

The Haunting [1963 film] (Associate producer, some editions) 75 copies, 3 reviews

Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their… (Contributor) 65 copies, 2 reviews

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Contributor) 42 copies

Do Me: Sex Tales from Tin House (Contributor) 38 copies, 1 review

The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Contributor) 12 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 04 (Contributor) 7 copies, 1 review

4 Poets (Contributor) 4 copies

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