Denis Johnson

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For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called "hobby horse", see Denis Johnson of London.

Denis Johnson (born 1949 in Munich, West Germany) is a German American writer who has written numerous novels, short stories and poems. He was raised in Tokyo, Manila, and Washington. He holds a masters' degree from the University of Iowa. His work was influenced by the novelist Leonard Gardner. He has received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993) and a Whiting Writer’s Award (1986). His most famous work is the collection of short stories Jesus' Son. He is currently the Mitte Chair at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

In 2002 Johnson won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for “Train Dreams”.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Short stories 1.3 Poems 1.4 Plays 1.5 Non-fiction 2 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

• Angels (1983)
• Fiskadoro (1985)
• The Stars at Noon (1986)
• Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1991)
• Already Dead: A California Gothic (1998)
• The Name of the World A Novella, (2000)
• Train Dreams A Novella, (2002) (published in The Paris Review and included in O'Henry Prize Stories 2003. Not yet published on its own or in a Johnson collection.)

[edit] Short stories

• Jesus' Son (collection of short stories) (1992) was adapted for the screen and produced by Evenstar Films, and released by Lions Gate Films in 1999. It was named one of the top ten films of the year by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Roger Ebert and others. The cast included Jack Black, Billy Crudup, Dennis Hopper, Holly Hunter, Denis Leary, Samantha Morton, Will Patton, and featured a cameo by Adewale Ayuba.

[edit] Poems

• The Man Among the Seals
• Inner Weather
• The Incognito Lounge
• The Veil
• The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New

[edit] Plays

Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. He is the Resident Playwright of Campo Santo, the resident theater company at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.

• Hellhound on my Trail
• Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames
• Soul of a Whore
• Psychos Never Dream
• Purvis

[edit] Non-fiction

• Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond (2001)

[edit] External links

• Johnson page
• Interview with Denis Johnson
• 'Homeless and High', a short piece by Denis Johnson
• Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco