Denis Johnson
Author · 20 books
Denis Johnson (1949–2017) was an American writer. Born in Munich to an American military officer, he spent part of his childhood in Tokyo and the Philippines. He became known for novels and short stories including *Angels*, *Jesus’ Son* and *Tree of Smoke*. *Tree of Smoke* won the National Book Award, while it and the novella *Train Dreams* were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2017, Johnson was posthumously awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction for his body of work.