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Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017

LC control no.n 81147004
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3560.O3745
Personal name headingJohnson, Denis, 1949-2017
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedEvanston (Ill.)
Birth date1949-07-01
Death date2017-05-24
Place of birthMunich (Germany)
Place of deathGualala (Calif.)
Field of activityFiction Short stories
Novels
Profession or occupationAuthors Novelists
Found inHis Inner weather, 1976.
His The stars at noon, 1995: CIP t.p. (Denis Johnson) data sheet (b. 07/01/49)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (b. in Munich; presently living in Evanston, Ill.)
New York times WWW site, viewed May 30, 2017 (in obituary published May 26: Denis Johnson; b. Denis Hale Johnson, July 1, 1949, Munich (his father worked for the United States Information Agency and was variously posted); d. Wednesday [May 24, 2017], Gualala, Calif., aged 67; National Book Award winner whose novels and short stories about the fallen--junkies, down-and-out travelers, drifters, and violent men in the United States and abroad--emerged in ecstatic, hallucinatory, and sometimes minimalist prose)
Associated languageeng