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For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called "hobby horse", see Denis Johnson of London. Denis Johnson (born 1949 in Munich, West Germany) is a German American writer who has written numerous novels, short stories and poems. He was raised in Tokyo, Manila, and Washington. He holds a masters' degree from the University of Iowa. His work was influenced by the novelist Leonard Gardner. He has received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993) and a Whiting Writer’s Award (1986). His most famous work is the collection of short stories Jesus' Son. He is currently the Mitte Chair at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In 2002 Johnson won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for “Train Dreams”.
Novels Short stories Poems Plays Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. He is the Resident Playwright of Campo Santo, the resident theater company at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Non-fiction | ||||||||
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