Книга: Denis Johnson «Tree of Smoke»

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke

ISBN: 9780330449212

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Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson
Born 1949
Munich, Germany
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Period 1969-present
Genres Fiction


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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Biography

Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich, West Germany. He holds an MFA degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he has also returned to teach. He received a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1986 and a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction in 1993.

Johnson first came to prominence after the publication of his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992), which was adapted into the 1999 film of the same name, which was named one of the top ten films of the year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Roger Ebert. Johnson has a cameo role in the film as a man who has been stabbed in the eye by his wife.

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.

In 2006-2007, Johnson held the Mitte Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Personal life

Johnson is twice divorced and lives with his third wife, Cindy Lee, in Arizona and Idaho.[3][4] Johnson has three children, two of whom he homeschooled; in October, 1997 he wrote an article for Salon.com in defense of homeschooling.[5]

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • The Man Amongst the Seals (Stone Wall Press, 1969)
  • Inner Weather (Graywolf Press, 1976)
  • The Incognito Lounge (Random House, 1982)
  • The Veil (Knopf, 1987)
  • The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (HarperCollins, 1995)
  • For Jane

Novels

  • Angels (1983)
  • Fiskadoro (1985)
  • The Stars at Noon (1986)
  • Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1991)
  • Already Dead: A California Gothic (1998)
  • The Name of the World (2000)
  • Train Dreams (2002)
  • Tree of Smoke (2007)
  • Nobody Move (2009)

Short story collection

  • Jesus' Son (1992)

Plays

  • Hellhound on My Trail
  • Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames
  • Soul of a Whore
  • AB Survival in the United States
  • Purvis
  • Des Moines (2007)
  • Everything Has Been Arranged (An adaptation of his story "Small Boys Unit") (2007)

Screenplays

Non-fiction

  • Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond (essays) (2001)

References

  1. ^ "What Authors Influenced You?", Authorsontheweb.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
  2. ^ "Scott Snyder", litpark, 2006-08-31. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
  3. ^ Writers' Workshop - The University of Iowa
  4. ^ Moore, Michael Scott. "Poet of the Fallen World: How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright" (reprint), SF Weekly, February 2003. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  5. ^ School is Out. Salon.com
  6. ^ Thompson, Bob (2007-11-15). Johnson's 'Tree of Smoke' Wins National Book Award. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402806.html. Retrieved 2007-11-15 
  7. ^ Sisario, Ben. "Arts, Briefly: Channeling Noir, Dickens-Style," The New York Times, 2008-06-11. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.

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