Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson was the author of several novels, including Already Dead, Nobody Move, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, Angels and The Name of the World, plus a collection of short stories, Jesus' Son, and four volumes of poetry. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction, and he was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He died in Sea Ranch, CA in 2017 at the age of sixty-seven.