Denis Johnson
author profile
born
January 01, 1949
gender
male
place of birth
Munich, Germany
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He holds a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and has 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 the Paris Review for Train Dreams, and most recently, the National Book Award for Fiction (2007).
books by Denis Johnson
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quotes by Denis Johnson
"She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother."
— Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son)
— Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son)
"She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her."
— Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke: A Novel)
— Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke: A Novel)
