Denis Johnson (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Denis Johnson has published several volumes of poetry, the best known being “The Incognito Lounge” and Other Poems (1982), and a number of novels, such as Angels (1983) and Already Dead: A California Gothic (1997). He has also written book reviews, a screenplay, news copy, and essays (“School’s Out,” 1999).

Achievements

Denis Johnson has received a National Poetry Series Award and a Whiting Writers Award from the Whiting Foundation for “exceptionally promising emerging talent.” Jesus’ Son was...

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