Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is best known for Jesus' Son, his debut short story collection from 1992, and for Tree of Smoke, a novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction. Train Dreams, a novella following a day laborer through the early twentieth-century American West, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Johnson died in 2017, and his last short story collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, appeared posthumously in 2018.