Denis Johnson (1949–2017)
Autor(a) de Jesus' Son: Stories
About the Author
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 mais 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
Séries
Obras por Denis Johnson
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (1995) 166 exemplares
Emergency (Short Story) 3 exemplares
Work (short story) 1 exemplar
Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Short Story) 1 exemplar
Soul of a Whore: Act 1 1 exemplar
Soul of a Whore: Act 3 1 exemplar
Soul of a Whore: Act 2 1 exemplar
Lucky 1 exemplar
The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford 1 exemplar
Dundun (Short Story) 1 exemplar
The Man Among the Seals 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contribuidor — 400 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contribuidor — 322 exemplares
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Contribuidor — 220 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Johnson, Denis Hale
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-07-01
- Data de falecimento
- 2017-05-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- München, Duitsland
- Local de falecimento
- Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer (liver)
- Locais de residência
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Manila, Philippines
Virginia, USA
Arizona, USA
Idaho, USA - Educação
- University of Iowa
- Ocupações
- playwright
author
poet - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1993)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1993)
Whiting Writers' Award (1986)
Award of Merit (Novel, 2009)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Read These Too (3)
100 New Classics (1)
to get (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Also by
- 30
- Membros
- 12,266
- Popularidade
- #1,910
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 444
- ISBN
- 285
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 56