Denis Johnson
Author · 27 books
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 the Paris Review for Train Dreams, and most recently, the National Book Award for Fiction (2007).
Series
Books
Birthday Stories
Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
2004
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
2018
Inner Weather
1976
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly
Poems Collected and New
1995
The Laughing Monsters
2014
The Incognito Lounge
1994
Train Dreams plus Jesus' Son
2011
The Stars at Noon
1986
Car Crash While Hitchhiking and Emergency
Two Stories
2014
Seek
Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond
2001
Train Dreams
2002
Already Dead
A California Gothic
1997
Fiskadoro
1985
Angels
1977
The Man Among the Seals & Inner Weather
2017
Emergency
2009
The Writer's Notebook
Craft Essays from Tin House
2009
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
1990
Shoppers
Two Plays by Denis Johnson
2002
The Name of the World
2000
Tree of Smoke
2004
Jesus' Son
1992
The Veil
1987
Nobody Move
2009
Soul of a Whore and Purvis
Two Plays in Verse
2012
The Man Among the Seals
1969
