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Denis Johnson

Biography

Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson is the author of five novels, a collection of poetry, and one book of reportage. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer’s Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in Northern Idaho.

Books by Denis Johnson

Train Dreams: A Novella
by Denis Johnson - Fiction

Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the 20th century --- an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world.

Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson - Fiction
The Name of the World: A Novel
by Denis Johnson - Fiction, Literary Fiction
Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson - Literary Fiction

An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of Already Dead: A California Gothic, Angels and Resuscitation of a Hanged Man.