Denis Johnson: Quotes, Biography, Personal Life, Awards, Bibliography, and a List of Books by Author Denis Johnson

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"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off." -- Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (born 1949) is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.

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"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.""I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.""I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.""I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.""I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.""If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.""If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.""In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.""What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.""When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.""You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."

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Total Books: 117

Already Dead (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780330371148
ISBN-10: 0330371142

Already Dead a California Gothic (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780060187378
ISBN-10: 0060187379
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

Angels (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780099440833
ISBN-10: 0099440830
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 4/5 Stars.

Angels a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780060988821
ISBN-10: 0060988827
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

Arbol De Humo/ Tree of Smoke [Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9788439721383
ISBN-10: 8439721382
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Arbre De Fume (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782267019919
ISBN-10: 2267019914
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Der Name Der Welt (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783498032302
ISBN-10: 3498032305

Des Anges (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782267016628
ISBN-10: 2267016621

Die Lachenden Ungeheuer (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783498033422
ISBN-10: 3498033425
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ein Gerader Rauch (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783498032227
ISBN-10: 3498032224

El Nombre Del Mundo [Literatura - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788439709640
ISBN-10: 8439709641

Engel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783499230547
ISBN-10: 3499230542

Fiskadoro (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780060976095
ISBN-10: 0060976098
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

Hijo De Jesus / Jesus' Son [Debolsillo 21] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788497592161
ISBN-10: 8497592166
Genre: Literature & Fiction

In Der Hlle (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783499245817
ISBN-10: 3499245817

Incognito Lounge (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780394706771
ISBN-10: 0394706773

The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394523477
ISBN-10: 0394523474
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Incognito Lounge [Classic Contemporaries Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780887481765
ISBN-10: 0887481760
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 5/5 Stars.

Jesus' Sohn (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783498032241
ISBN-10: 3498032240

Jesus' Sohn Das Buch Zum Film (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783518398319
ISBN-10: 3518398318

Jesus' Son (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780413772428
ISBN-10: 041377242X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 5/5 Stars.

Jesus' Son Stories (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Stories (Hardcover) → Paperback

The Laughing Monsters (Paperback)

The Laughing Monsters a Novel (Hardcover) → Paperback, Audio CD

Le Nom Du Monde (Paperback) → Paperback

Mcsweeney's Issue No 9 [McSweeney's Issue, Volume 9] (Paperback)

The Name of the World (Paperback) → Paperback

The Name of the World a Novel (Hardcover)

Nobody Move (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

Nobody Move (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover

One Man By Himself Portraits of Jon Serl [Profile Series] (Hardcover)

Open City 4 [Open City] (Paperback)

Personne Bouge (Other)

Que Nadie Se Mueva (Paperback)

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man a Novel (Paperback)

Rves De Train (Other)

Schon Tot (Paperback) → Hardcover

Seek (Paperback)

Seek Reports From the Edges of America and Beyond (Hardcover) → Hardcover

Seek Reports From the Edges of America Beyond (Paperback)

Shoppers Two Plays By Denis Johnson (Paperback) → Hardcover

Shoppers Two Plays By Denis Johnson (Hardcover) → Paperback

Soul of a Whore and Purvis Two Plays in Verse (Paperback)

The Stars at Noon (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly Poems Collected and New (Hardcover) → Paperback

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly Poems Collected and New (Paperback) → Hardcover

Train Dreams (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover

Train Dreams a Novella (Paperback) → Audio CD

Tree of Smoke (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

Tree of Smoke [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)

The Veil [Knopf Poetry Series] (Paperback)

The Writer's Notebook Craft Essays From Tin House (Paperback)

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