Many remember him for Jesus’ Son, which in hazed but undeniable detail chronicled the lives of various drug addicts adrift in America.
The story collection The Largess of the Sea Maiden, his first since Jesus’ Son, is scheduled to come out in January from the Penguin Random House imprint Dial Press. His other works include the novel Laughing Monsters and Angels, the poetry collection The Veil and the play Hellhound On My Trail. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for his Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Tree of Smoke, and, in 2012, for his novella Train Dreams. Johnson’s honesty, humor and vulnerability were intensely admired by readers, critics and fellow writers, some of whom mourned him on Twitter. “He wrote prose with the imaginative concentration and empathy of the poet he was.” “Denis was one of the great writers of his generation,” Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, said in a news release Friday. Johnson died of liver cancer at his home in the Sea Ranch, outside of Gualala, Calif. Johnson died Wednesday, according to his literary agent, Nicole Aragi.
NEW YORK: Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright best known for his surreal and transcendent story collection Jesus’ Son, has died at age 67.
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