Denis Johnson

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born

January 01, 1949 in Munich, Germany

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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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).

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Books by Denis Johnson

Average rating: 3.85 · 20,986 ratings · 2,832 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Jesus' Son 4.21 avg rating — 8,091 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Tree of Smoke 3.54 avg rating — 3,627 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Nobody Move 3.28 avg rating — 1,441 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Bettina Abarbanell 3.91 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Already Dead: A California Gothic 3.57 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Angels 3.85 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Name Of The World 3.42 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Fiskadoro 3.42 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man 3.61 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond 3.90 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:

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“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

tags: desert , heart , mother

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“I knew every raindrop by its name.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son

27 people liked it

“English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.”
― Denis Johnson

tags: words

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