Johnson would also occasionally teach at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. In 20, Johnson held the Mitte Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He was the Resident Playwright of Campo Santo, the resident theater company at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. However, for the first time since 1977, the Pulitzer board did not award a prize for fiction that year. Train Dreams, originally published as a story in The Paris Review in 2002, was published as a novella in 2011 and was a finalist for that year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In the novel, we learn the history of Bill Houston, a main character in Johnson’s first novel Angels, the latter novel set in the early 1980s. It takes place during the Vietnam War, spanning the years 1963–70, with a coda set in 1983. Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Johnson has a cameo role in the film as a man who has been stabbed in the eye by his wife. It was adapted into the 1999 film of the same name, which starred Billy Crudup. It has been variously described as: seminal, legendary, transcendent, a classic, and a masterpiece. In a 2006 New York Times Book Review poll, Jesus' Son was voted one of the best works of American fiction published in the last 25 years. He came to prominence in 1992 with the short story collection Jesus' Son, which included vignettes originally published in The New Yorker, inspired by Isaac Babel’s book Red Cavalry. He earned a measure of acclaim with the publication of his first novel, Angels, in 1983. Johnson published his first book, a collection of poetry titled The Man Among Seals, in 1969 at the age of 19. While at the Writers' Workshop, Johnson took classes from Raymond Carver.
(in 1974) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he also returned to teach. in English (in 1971) from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. His mother, the former Vera Louise Childress, was a homemaker. His father, Alfred Johnson, worked for the State Department as a liaison between the USIA and the CIA. Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany.
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