He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Tree of Smoke and again in 2012 for his novella Train Dreams. Johnson won the National Book Award in 2007 for his Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke. "Other influences come and go, but those I admire the most and those I admired the earliest (I still admire them) have something to say in every line I write." Seuss, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, the guitar solos of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and T.S. "My ear for the diction and rhythms of poetry was trained by - in chronological order - Dr. In a 1984 interview with the New York Times, he cited a wide range of influences. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop and studied under Raymond Carver, whose raw accounts of addiction and recovery would be echoed in Johnson's work. The son of a State Department liaison, Johnson was born in Munich, Germany, and lived around world before settling in Arizona and Idaho. "He wrote prose with the imaginative concentration and empathy of the poet he was." "Denis was one of the great writers of his generation," Galassi said in a statement Friday. Johnson died Wednesday, according to Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright best known for his surreal story collection Jesus' Son, has died.
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