Denis Johnson (1949–2017)
Autor de Hijo de Jesús
Sobre El Autor
Denis Johnson was born in Munich, Germany on July 1, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He published his first book of poetry, The Man Among the Seals, at the age of 19. However, addictions to alcohol and drugs derailed him and he was in a mostrar más psychiatric ward at the age of 21. He was sober by the early 1980s. Along with writing several volumes of poetry, Johnson wrote short stories for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. His novels included Angels, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Already Dead, Nobody Move, Train Dreams, and The Laughing Monsters. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for Tree of Smoke. He also received the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts, the Robert Frost Award, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He died of liver cancer on May 24, 2017 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Denis Johnson
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (1995) 170 copias, 4 reseñas
Emergency (Short Story) 3 copias
Work (short story) 1 copia
Soul of a Whore: Act 1 1 copia
Soul of a Whore: Act 3 1 copia
Soul of a Whore: Act 2 1 copia
Lucky 1 copia
Dundun (Short Story) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,283 copias, 9 reseñas
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 521 copias, 4 reseñas
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 485 copias, 2 reseñas
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contribuidor — 400 copias, 5 reseñas
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Contribuidor — 338 copias, 4 reseñas
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contribuidor — 323 copias, 2 reseñas
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Contribuidor — 223 copias, 9 reseñas
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Contribuidor — 201 copias, 2 reseñas
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 188 copias, 1 reseña
McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (2010) — Contribuidor — 163 copias, 3 reseñas
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 126 copias, 1 reseña
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 124 copias, 2 reseñas
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 67 copias, 2 reseñas
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Johnson, Denis Hale
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-07-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-05-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- München, Duitsland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer (liver)
- Lugares de residencia
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Manila, Philippines
Virginia, USA
Arizona, USA
Idaho, USA - Educación
- University of Iowa
- Ocupaciones
- playwright
author
poet - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014)
- Premios y honores
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1993)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1993)
Whiting Writers' Award (1986)
Award of Merit (Novel, 2009)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Read These Too (3)
100 New Classics (1)
to get (1)
Premios
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- Obras
- 35
- También por
- 30
- Miembros
- 12,535
- Popularidad
- #1,870
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 445
- ISBNs
- 286
- Idiomas
- 17
- Favorito
- 56