Tree of Smoke | Biography
Denis Johnson, born in 1949 in Munich, West Germany, is a U.S. author who lived many years abroad while his father worked for the State Department. Besides his time spent in Munich, Johnson lived in Manila, the Philippines, and Tokyo, Japan; and as an adult, he worked on assignment as a journalist in such places as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Some critics have speculated that Johnson’s own itinerant background has led to the sense of fragmentation and displacement so prevalent in his writing.
He published his first work, a well-regarded collection of poems titled The...
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