Denis Johnson




Denis Johnson

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born
January 01, 1949

gender
male

place of birth
Munich, Germany

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry


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).




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avg rating: 3.87 | 9,748 ratings | 1,583 reviews | 20 distinct works | 42 fans
Jesus' Son: Stories Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 4.24 — 3,736 ratings — published 1992
13 editions
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.61 — 1,771 ratings — published 2007
14 editions
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Already Dead: A California Got... Already Dead: A California Gothic
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.56 — 668 ratings — published 1997
8 editions
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Angels Angels
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.85 — 482 ratings — published 1977
13 editions
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The Name of the World The Name of the World
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.40 — 434 ratings — published 2000
9 editions
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Nobody Move: A  Novel Nobody Move: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.37 — 400 ratings — published 2009
6 editions
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Fiskadoro Fiskadoro
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.40 — 386 ratings — published 1985
10 editions
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The Throne of the Third Heaven... The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 4.12 — 218 ratings — published 1995
3 editions
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Resuscitation of a Hanged Man Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.52 — 255 ratings — published 1991
8 editions
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Seek: Reports from the Edges o... Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
by Denis Johnson
avg rating 3.90 — 216 ratings — published 2001
5 editions
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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)
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"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)
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"Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?"
Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son: Stories)
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